8216;We8217;ll bat till fourth evening8217;

The placid wicket and hot weather had done the bowlers few favours, he felt.

8220;Because of the heat, the bowlers have to work harder. People8217;s expectations are very high and they feel that on such wickets India have Anil and Harbhajan and they will take wickets.

8220;As for the heat, we all have played here in the past too. Wherever you play in India during March, the conditions are the same. Ahmedabad will be the same and it is going to be much more difficult in Kanpur, where it will be dry heat,8221; Sehwag said.

India had made a solid start with Sehwag and Wasim Jaffer putting on 82 for the unbroken first wicket.

8220;Jaffer is batting well. Of his five centuries so far, he has made two double hundreds. You cannot discount his abilities,8221; he said.