1) The fab four seem to be "playing from memory" rather than on the merits of each ball, after carefully watching it from the bowlers' arms till it pitches.
2) The fab four seem to be psychologically down and out, with the emergence of young blood and allround cries from different quarters to sack them.
3) They do not seem to have reconciled to playing only tests and doing so to their own best potential but seem to somehow be in the thick of action in IPL or elsewhere since lot of money is involved.
4) Leaving batting woes aside, bowling has appeared very thin, not just on this tour but even earlier for several years, save in a few matches sporadically. It is difficult to digest that Kumble-Bhajji could scalp only 2 wickets, on a pitch where Murali-Mendis picked up 19 wickets!
5) Mendis menace seems to have jolted not just batting, but fielding and bowling as well!
6) Sehwag and Gambhir should switch over to test mode, now that T20 and ODIs are over.
7) Team management could think of replacing Karthik with Parthiv, have Sehwag-Parthiv opening the innings and bring Gambhir at No.3 or 4. One of the other batsmen to be dropped to include P. Ohja. These things appear far fetched suggestions, going by the status quo attitude of team management.
One has to wait and watch whether things can really improve in the remaining two tests.
