AS a home series of mixed fortunes ends and an away series in South Africa and the West Indies beckons,the brains of Indian cricket face a familiar question: where do we find opening bats-men with the technique and temperament to battle Allan Donald, Lance Klusener, Fanie de Villiers and Craig Mathews; Courtney Walsh, Curtley Ambrose and Ian Bishop? The answer: nowhere . The paucity of openers is not a problem peculiar to India. Only three of the top 20 batsmen on Wisden Cricket Monthlys latest world rankings are current openers (Mark Taylor, Saeed Anwar and Mike Atherton). Two others (Michael Slater and Shoaib Mohammed) have fallen out of favour with the selectors.