Where's Warne when you need him?

I have just watched Virender Sehwag – (62 matches, 24 wickets at an average of 39) deliver an unplayable off-break to Australia’s number five Michael Clarke.

With a puff of dark-brown dust the ball bucked off a good length: it turned viciously back into the batsman at an angle of 45 degrees, flying over Clarke’s gloves as he dropped his hands at the last second, and then past Dhoni behind the stumps. It ran away for three byes.

This was the 97th over of Australia’s first innings, on the third day of the match.

If this is what Virender Sehwag – a batsman not noted for delivering spitting cobra’s – can do, then what is Cameron White doing in Australia’s team with Beau Casson and Nathan Hauritz playing state-cricket back in Australia? How bad must they be? Neither would win a series, but playing White is like England going into a Test with Ian Blackwell as your front-line spin option.

Sehwag has just bowled Hussey – well set on 53 – with a ball that pitched on middle - gripped and turned, and cannoned into the left-handers off-stump. Where’s Shane Warne when you need him?