This skipper also needs to score

Virender Sehwag has captained India at Motera against Sri Lanka 8212; a couple of months ago during the ODI series. He was stand-in skipper in the second innings after an exhausted centurion Rahul Dravid opted to rest in the dressing room.

That half-day stint, Sehwag told his coach Greg Chappell, had left him 8216;8216;totally exhausted8217;8217;. The coach8217;s reply might well have been, 8216;8216;You ain8217;t seen nothing yet.8217;8217;

It8217;s not just the complications surrounding the match itself that will tax Sehwag; he will be on trial as a future captain. There are other claimants for the job and his every move will be closely watched.