Before he talks of the world cup format, what about the current selction format?
zonal selection is the worst thing to have happened to indian cricket. why not have a ranking system segregating batsmen, bowlers, keepers, openers, hitters (we need them na), spinners [something like this] and rank them with fielding and running between the wickets. the top rankers automatically make it to the team.
this way, selection will be 100% meritorious with no bias whatsoever