I feel this is a great lesson on arrogance of Indian cricket board and players.
Ganguly became arrogant, and dropped, and he came flying down to the ground, and back he is.
I have noticed Rahul also doing the same arrogance, but in a subtle manner. And if it is not arrogance, then it is foolishness on his part, to have a 11 which has no teeth. Player Agarkar and Shewag was the biggest mistake. The record of winning with 4 fast bolwers, when Saurav was captain is unmatched. Hence, Pathan and Sreeshanth would have been good. Playing an unintelligent player like Harbajan, was another mistake. You need to have intelligent spinner. Kumble may not be the greatest spinner, but atleast he is intelligent. Somehow I am not confident on Robin Uthappa. The right combination would have been Dhoni and Ganguly, is you bat first. Ganguly and Tendulkar if you bat second. I really fail to understand, why the Indian team management is skeptical of opening with two best openers we ever had. Take note of Australia - Hayden & Gilchrist, a regular combination and one of the best bats. I think, the first and foremost, build up your mental strength, and make yourself available for the occassion. General Indian citizen are escapist to problem. Similarly out opening partnership.
Another suggestion, every Indian A team player should play atleast 2 years in English / Australian county. Indian domestic cricket is stupid calibration point, and as good as Bangaladesh domestic cricket. Now, we cant even claim that.
Coming to coach, need to be changed. I somehow feel either he is not assetive. When he was assetive at the beginning, and axed Ganguly everyone protested. So he may have gone back on his assertive attitude. Greg always had been, when he was captain in Australia also. Secondly, he is planning seems to me not as per the present day cricketing excellance.I will rather prefer Tom Moody / Dave Whatmore who works on the strategy more. Coach is there to make the strategy, rectify faults in team individuals, improve skill sets with help of others, draw out plan for individual development, help in collective thinking. He is not there to give catching practise.
