F or the third time in a year's time, the Indian team's think tank - with Head Coach Gautam Gambhir in the vanguard of it - asked for a 'dubious' pitch supposed to offer copious turn and uneven bounce in order to gain advantage against the visiting South African batters at the famous Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

And what transpired over eight sessions of two hours each told a story of the home team batters' inadequacy to deal with the off-breaks of Simon Harmer, who in ten years of Test cricket had a tally of 52 wickets. Just that much going into the Test match.

But in a single Test at the grand Eden Gardens, he took the centre stage with eight wickets distributed over two innings to bring down the so-called mighty Indian batting line-up. India's batters fell like nine pins on the designer

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