But if player insecurity is the principal psychological dynamics of the Indian XI, there is also the luck of skipper Mohammed Azharuddin. Down and out in the 1989 Test series in Pakistan and on the verge of being dropped, he was selected in the XI because of a toe injury to Raman Lamba. He went on to cement his place with a century. Says Lamba, on a day-long trip to Dhaka where he occasionally plays club cricket: "Azhar's got the kismat of Sindbad the Sailor."