Kaif measures up, for once

I am happy to be wrong about Kaif and he proved a point by playing unlike Kaif innings. For once, he was more fluent (not the strike rate of 70-80, which you will expect for fluent, front line batsman but decent enough by Kaif standards) and more important ran every run, as if his life depended on it. Dravid did his part and notched up his 23rd 100 before falling to rank bad long hop that was directed towards gully, rather than the stumps.
I did not understand on what Dhoni was trying to do after lunch. He batted uncharacteristically and Gayle, who had been dominating India with bat, as well as ball, slipped in over after over for very few runs. Dhoni's failure to accelerate in this phase cost India atleast 50 runs overall.
It was good that India picked up 3 wickets but all said and done, Gayle's wicket is going to be the key and he can save the test for WI even now.