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Its the pitches and our attitude
by srinivas kanna on Mar 27, 2007 05:05 AM

No matter young blood or old blood are medium blood are inducted into the team, the performance is going to be the same if the pitches back in india are going to remain the same. We need that extra effort in our fielding to save 25-30 runs on the field. If you had seen the match between Aus and SA yesterday (Aus eventually won the match) India were no where near a match to them on any aspect. Better it didnt qualify for the super 8s. Aus and SA are going to beat the crap out of Bangladesh. The team needs severe retrospection and we should have two teams; one for test and one for ODI. I see no point in sacking Dravid from the captaincy. A captain can cheer you up, set your fields, and support you. Its the individual who has to deliver and unfortunately our batting collapsed against SL. Had anyone (Dhoni atleast) been there with Dravid, the story would have been different. Change the pitches, change groupism, make the BCCI meetings and selection as an open house project transparent to all people, seek the advice of previous captains, appoint a fielding coach, have the pacemen go and train at MRF pace academy and more importantly make our players work out physically. World cup is going to happen once in every 4 years. Things do change and its just that we need to adapt to the change. talking old achievements is crap. So better late than never. Arise and awake stop not till you win the WC.

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