Nayan mongia, thanks for your in-depth analysis of Team India's failure in WC 2000. Looking from a distance its easy to criticise, but the main problem is that Indian team was never ever good enough, the media just hyped the whole thing. The Indian team deserves no criticism cos this is truly their worth. They are ranked No. 6 in the world, they have lost to the WI 7 times in the last one year, lost to SA 4 times, lost to Australia, Bangladesh etc. If we expected them to win this WC, the truth is that we were dreaming. Imagine, if media had told the public that Narain Karthikeyan would be F-1 champion in 2005, we would have laughed, right ? But Narain, Paes, Mirza, Dhanraj all have passion in their respective sports. Paes,Bhupathi and Dhanraj have achieved much more, but Tendulkar is still our hero, WHY???? is a question we must ourselves.
