Ban commercial advertisements and introduce performance based pay - this is the sole way to ensure proper performance from current India team. New players come, they show sparks of talent, then enter the ad world, make billions, and end up losing their cricket sheen: this in sum is the lot of current players. It is natural that a person makes effort when there is hunger for something: with good money coming their way, players are not hungry to show their talent (unfortunately, not a single player in the team thinks he represents the nation and the aspirations of its people, otherwise this would have never been the situation). Dravid's captaincy has also become hopeless. His strategy is always to play defensive and not attacking game: which is what separates him from Ganguly, as a captain. In the second one dayer, I think the turning point was when Dravid gave the ball to T'dulkar when opposition's six wickets were down. One wonders, why did he not give the ball to Zaheer Khan (most successful bowler of the day) or to his main bowlers. Givin the ball to T'dulkar only showed that he was more interested in making the opposition play 50 overs rather than bowl them out! A stupid act
