He will be buoyed also by the fact that like VVS Laxman, Australia have always been his favoured opposition, and he has always done well against the team from Down Under. Indeed assignments against Australia have, without fail, given Vijay the opportunity to prop up his career whenever it looked to be in the doldrums.
It was the Australians against whom he was handed a debut in 2008, but in an era when Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir ruled the roost, Vijay could only be accommodated as a reserve opener. Expectedly, he didn’t get much of an opportunity and in roughly two years since his debut to the end of the Sri Lanka series in August 2010, he played only seven matches, scoring a measly 333 runs, with only two half-centuries.
