I agree with your logic on Pathan. Your argument should have become more helpful if you also gave some suggestions about Sehwag and Sachin. The less-than-average performances of Sachin do not entitle him a place in the team permanently or until he volountarily retires, at the cost of up-coming youngsters, who would have contributed at least as much as, Sachin now-a-days does. Team building efforts for future are partially given-up, in order to favour the once-have-been-stalwarts. And about Sehwag the less we talk, the better. The team management is bent upon retaining him through dozens of failures, until he makes a good score (of course studded with a number of lives in the slips), which gives them an excuse to say, //..see...he is a match winner and an asset'//. When it comes to Sehwag BCCI is totally oblivious to the cause of Indian Cricket.
Please draw a comparison in the case of these two players also, with the exemplary Aussie practice.
To be fair to them I should also say here, that both are still agile while fielding, despite their depleted batting calibre.
Talkimg about others, Jaffer also should be dropped after the on-going series if he continues to fail.
