The Great Indian Cricket Debacle

On 24th March 2007 India made an early exist from the world cup cricket tournament.The dreams of 1 Billion people and that of the advertisers & media were crushed. What went wrong?
4 years back they were the finalists and 4 years later they got beaten by minnows & couldnt even qualify for the super 8.

Lot of things stand out as sore points

1) Poor Selection :- Every one hailed the Indian selectors when they chose the team some months back.But the team was utterly flawed. It was supposed be a balance between experience & youth.But what it really was a bunch of Old men accompanied by unruly boys.

2) Captain:- Dravid is a good batsman & a nice gentleman,but he is not a good leader,he can be a good vice captain, but not a good captain. i think its time to give spirited young men the chance for leadership,like yuvraj. The selectors have to move away from their seniority rule for captainship.

3)BCCI:- BCCI should be made like a professional organization. What is sharad pawar or jagmohan dalmiya doing here. It should be managed by a ruthless CEO caring only for profits & customer satisfaction aka Indian cricket fans. politcis has to come out completely of it.

4) Player:- I put them among the last to take blame for the defeat.you know why? They knew they couldnt win. its the selectors who pushed them to do it.