What do you say about the Indian opening batsmen?

opening slot should be given to Gautam Gambhir. he is the senior opener and he should open at one end. Rahane or Patel can be tested at the other end. surely kholi should play at one down slot. Rahane or Patel one of them should play in middle and score runs and then ask for opening slot. now both players are not performing well in the opening slot. But I really miss Viru in the opening slot.

According to me, they should be given one more chance. In England I believe this pair gave us one or two good starts. When we are trusting someone then they should be viven chance more than 5-6.

As far as Rahane is concerned he is a promising player and one for the future,also he has shown promise.Parthiv has been getting chances probably due to his ability to play short ball well, and he showed it in England too,so in case on a tour first choice opener is injured he can be a good choice.Both these players are better than Vijay who got much more chances.However they haven't made use of opportunities so far like you rightly mentioned. Yusuf Pathan who is a special talent can be given the job of opening since he always complaints of not getting enough overs,also Sehwag who was not a regular opener was given a chance by Ganguly and John Wright so it may work.Also i was surprised that Mukund was not given a chance in ODIs after he showed so much promise in England.

The present opening pair of Parthiv Patel and Ajinkya Rahane has not performed to the expectations. lot was expected from Ajinkya Rahane as he showed a great promise in his inaugural outing in England. The way he got out yesterday to a mistimed hook attempted second time after getting away narrowly with the first one, shows his inexperience But there is great hope on him. He is definitely going to be future prospect for India. As about Parthiv Patel, he started too early for India playing at the age of 16 but appears he may not continue for long. In any case this opening pair is a make shift arrangement due to the injury to key opening pair, Tendulkar and Sehwag. In absence of one of these players Gambhir will fill the second spot of the opener and as rightly pointed out by you kohli should be an ideal one down player. But till the regular opening pair returns I feel the present opening should continue. We can not forget that the strength of English attack lies in their opening bowlers and it is better to shield our key players from their opening attack.

Soon INDIA will get thier regular opners in team and then this team will be unbeatable. It ok Rahane is new ans he had to learn alot so forgive the mistake hope he do well just see that INDIA can develope more and more Good opening batsaman.

Well, i guess you are right. This opening pair has not been performing well since the England tour. Especially Parthiv Patel's batting is not up to the mark. Why Indian Selector are looking at it? How about promoting Gautam Gambhir up the order and replacing Parthiv Patel with Saurabh Tiwary who is much better than Parthiv Patel. It can enhance Indian batting order a lot.

I think Patel is wasting his time playing cricket. The better partnership in current situation is Rahane and Gambhir.

i think we need to give both the batsman few more chances to prove themselves,both Rahane and Parthiv can play good knocks but they both require some time to set their selves for international cricket ...!

You can fill one slot of the opening with Gambhir but another one ? I think Rahane is good player but he didn't get good time