India went wrong in 4 things: Point 1 - in believing in itself and its team members. Point 2 - in praising Greg Chappel and allowing him a free hand to demolish Indian Cricket Team Point 3 - in stubbornly not realising that a Captain's luck also plays a part in the team winning matches irrespective of the captain's capabilities. Point 4 - Sharad Pawar, an active Politician gaining power and officially bringing in Politics into Indian Cricket. To be successful, a team needs to believe in itself and its team members.Unless one believes in self and team members the start to any battle itself becomes faulty.Abraham Lincoln attributed his success to exhibiting confidence in self and team irrespective of how he felt inside. The Australian Cricketers exhibit similar confidence irrespective of how they feel inside and this contributes to winning half the battle. Indian Cricketers partially exhibited that confidence in the 2003 Worlcup until the semi final where they lost to the greater confidence of the Australians. Greg Chappel was brought in to add this extra confidence to the Indian Team. Instead what he achieved was to make even the confident Indian players doubt their capabilities and the rest is history. I am strongly convinced that Greg Chappel came to India not to help India win but to ensure that India lose and thus make the chances of Australia brighter in this worldcup.If they do they will create history of a hattrick. Kiran More was a puppet in his hands, allowing himself to be manhandled during official matches and if the Chairman of Selectors is photographed in this fashion, how can the team be expected to win.The other selectors were even worse. They were bent upon saying yes to Chappel. Unfortunately, at this point of time Sharad Pawar took over the reigns of the BCCI. In his aim to down Dalmia he saw an ally in Greg and an enemy in Ganguly and allowed Kiran More and his musical band a free hand irrespective of what happened to Indian Cricket. When Politics enters Cricket, the rest is history. Today, I feel sad for Tendulkar. He has been penalised when the whole Indian Team failed. Tendulkar has gained laurels for the Country. People say that Tendulkar batted for himself. These are the people who do not yet know cricket or the commitment of Tendulkar. Remove the contribution of Tendulkar alone and you will find Indian Cricket not having done much. He has done more to Indian Cricket than any one single Indian Cricketer. To do this you require commitment. He has the highest Test and ODI centuries, one of the highest total test and ODI runs,etc. All this when all along Indian Bowling and fielding has been at best only second best in most matches. Inspite of this people want to sack Tendulkar.There cannot be greater betrayal by the Indian Selectors of Tendulkar than what they have just done. Vengsarkar appeared to be controlled and forced by Sharad Pawar into demolishing Tendulkar when both Pawar and Vengarkar's are themselves Maharastrians - which means they have betrayed Maharashtra apart from Indian Cricket. Currently, Tendulkar is at a threshold where he can create/break greater records. We must support him as the patch gets narrower. With that it is not Tendulkar alone who would benefit but Indian Cricket at Large. Every young Indian child cricketer batsman wants to emulate Tendulkar and this brings in greater successes for Indian Cricket. Instead, Sharad Pawar and his BCCI on account of political reasons have chosen to praise Greg Chappel and the Australians for badly treating Indians and in this aim not just Ganguly but Tendulkar has been penalised. Nobody is even wanting to ponder for a moment that had not Ganguly and Tendulkar been treated the way Greg treated them, the Indian Team would have won this world cup. Dravid does not have luck as a captain and the Selectors should realise this sooner than later. Advertisements did not come in the way of the Indian team performance. It was Captain's luck and the lack of peace of mind, motivation and the confidence in believing in self - all craftily manipulated by the man called Greg Kiran Pawar.
