Opening against fast and accurate bowling on hard bouncy pitches in aus conditions will be a tough task for any batsman . it will be a challenge to even Jaffer As a professional team player dravid he accepted challenge If he fails he will be out of test team also He is well aware of chief selector has an agenda against him.( Already out of odi team after just five bad innings. (Harbajan was wktless in six matches still he playing odi ) Dravid batted in diff positions throughout his career and highest average than any other ind batsman in test cricket. Rahul is only ind player who won 3 icc awards and represented icc test team for 3 yrs and selected icc odi team for 2 yrs. %u2013( if same honour happened to any other player ind media would done huge noise) Dravid had record performance outside India and always performed against strong bowling attack, when team was under pressure. This will be acid test for dravid and Best of luck to 10 K runs in test cricket Even in 3 test against Pakistan dravid leterally opened innings and responsible for good partnership with jaffer.so making comfortable platform for middle order batsman to carry forward Team has 3 openers ganguly sewag and tendulkar and none of player is coming forward to open innings to accommodate yuvraj. If ganguly & tendulkar can open in odis why not in tests? dravid is well aware of vengi has an agenda against him still he is taking tough call of opeinng innings where is superstars blabbering so muc
