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by raj on Oct 31, 2006 04:51 PM

What are team indias problems



ATTITUDE- I have been following indian cricket for the last 25 years and i dont remember indian teams having killer instinct at any time. The team lacks belief in itself and we never play with assured confidence. This could be generally attributed to laidback attitude of indians. We tried to sort this out by having foreign coaches and psychologists. Clearly its not working.



TEAM SPIRIT- When was the last time we played as a team and won. The only two instances i remember are the 83 world cup and 85 world series tournament. Most of the indian victories after those two have been mostly brilliant individual performances. Kumble, Dravid, Sachin, Saurav , harbhajan, laxman, etc have all contributed at different times, but we never have the team spirit, which even lesser teams seem to have



STRATEGY- This is the most disappointing aspect. We have an international coach, who is supposed to have a strategy.But it would be obvious even to a blind person that we dont have any strategy at all. The strategy has to vary to different teams and team india has remarkably low flexibility or adaptability to different conditions. Look how we are losing to windi

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