Sending Pathan back makes sense. His performance was woeful over the past year. He started off the year amazingly and since has deteriorated rapidly. The pressure to perform with the bat has led to his downfall i believe. When one sees the descision in its entity it makes sense becase at the moment india have a plethora o fast bowling options. Zaheer, Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, VRV Singh. Pathan is important in the bigger scheme of things like the WC07. Why have him waste his time bowling in the nets. There is nothing like match practice and he is not going to get any in South Africa in his present form. We have a decently strong middle order we should not need to strengthen the lower order with ppl who can bat rather than bowl. We do not need to go the way england went this ashes with opting for giles instead of panesar.
