You can't get best of both the worlds!! You are looking for fleet footed youngsters to improve your fielding but when they fail with the bat you dump them peremptorily! And then you plump for experience which comes at the expense of fielding! Bangladesh and Sri Lanka can field us out of the game by simply bowling a nagging line and prevent singles. so our guys have to go for big shots and thus get out!! On the other hand we can't prevent singles and twos and thus opposition can put up big scores without taking undue risk. Case in point was Sri Lanka where they went for big shots only after the 42nd over!!
So the solution is a hard tough one : sack all players whose fielding is letting India down. Which includes Kumble, Dravid, Ganguly, Tendulkar and Uthappa!! Get in people who have the potential to be competent in either batting or bowling and who field very well!! How many guys in the current indian team are a patch on Azhar, Robin Singh and Ajay Jadeja?? We are a poor fielding outfit and that has cost us this WC!! Gambhir, Raina, JP Yadav, Venugopal Rao and Kaif are all brilliant fielders. they may not set the house on fire with their batting but then Saqibul, Tamim, Ashraful are not exactly great batsmen, right?? but still beat us comfortably by sticking to basics!!
W can also build our basics right, improve our fitness and fielding standards and do the basics right in running between the wickets!! Case in point are Hayden and gilchirst; all that they do is tap the balla round and complete impossible singles and then go for big hits!! Tose who have seen Ganguly, Sehwag and Dravid know that a quick single is out of the equation!! Eliminate these slow coaches right now, bite the bullet, groom youngsters with talent and India will have a pool of 15 to 20 very good cricketers who will hopefully help them put up decent showing in next WC!!
