JUST SCORING double or triple century once a while can't be called a batsman of Sir Don Bradman’s calibre. Our own, Virender Sehwag’s performance that comes once in a blue moon is only disturbing.

Cricket is a game where past achievements or records don’t have much significance. What matters here, is your current performance. Consistency is more important than the batsman’s calibre.

What is the use of scoring 219, 321 runs in one or two matches and later being bowled out at poor scores of 5, 8 and couple of ducks? Even if you can’t score big hundreds all the time but at least you should consistently score 40-50 runs.

Let us now take the cases of two batsmen who scored the following runs in their last eight innings.

A :   33     41    46    50    32      40   51   62   = 355 Runs (average  44.37)

B:     0     7     87       3     14     0   161    92  =  364 Runs (average  45.5)

Batsman A –Dravid ‘s performance is rated better than  Batsman B- Sehwag ; though Sehwag scored nine runs more than Dravid and the average is only +  1.13.

Undoubtedly Dravid is considered a better batsman, with his batting consistency better than Sehwag, though he scored a century and two fifties.

In England, Sehwag scored 278 Runs from six matches with 106, his highest while in others innings he scored 0, 0, 8 and 33 runs.

In the latest series against Australia, he has scored so far 67 and 7 runs in the 1st Test match while he scored 30 and 4 runs in the 2nd Test Match, which India lost by an Innings and 68 runs.