Let's not be surprised at what Pawar said of India's world cup performance as he is given to the political way of dealing with things. Indian cricket has never been a world force in terms of talent, skills and guts but Indian cricket board has been in terms of muscle, money, power and mediocrity. His theory is that India has the right to be taken to cleaners by a team like B'desh as they have beaten teams such as Sri Lanka and Australia. India has been playing international cricket for atleast 3 times longer than Sri Lanka and B'desh but is yet to reach a position of greater respect in world cricket except 1983 world cup win. Shoddy domestic structure, unsporting pitches, lack of modern thinking/creative efforts, absence of selfless and proven personnel at the helm, utter disregard to the paying cricket followers, dis-jointed and knee-jerk approah to the festering issues, lack of dynamic vision to take Indian cricket to greater heights, regionalism, factionalism, favoritism, nepotism are but a few, afflicting the game in India. Even an eternal optimist would vouch that there's no light in sight and Indian cricket will continue to languish in deeper abyss. Haven't we been talking this for as long as there has been competitive cricket being played in this country. We tend to forget this all once we thrash some hapless teams on doctored pitches. Let's not waste our efforts in something we can't do anything about. The same is applicable accross every other domain in the country.
