The great leveller

My prophecy has come true. Even though I still feel the team should not be criticized on the back of one blip, the pathetic performances force me to do so. The Indians had indeed peaked too early. Too many false signals gave the Indians too much hope. Such were the expectations that even when they lost to the West Indies on Friday they were still considered favorites!! Rohit Sharma at best in a decent middle order batsman. But just 2 innings in practice matches and a 50 against Ireland made the think tank believe he was India's best opener. Bowlers at the IPL had forgotten that Suresh Raina was too short and would certainly have problems with the short stuff. Gambhir is best only when playing second foil - not as the lead opener. Yuvraj had to fail at least once. In the matter of 40 overs, two teams that didnt seem to stand a chance against the Indias blew the Indian mirage away - what a leveller for the Indians. As Nasser Insane put it, India were caught out technically.
It's got to come as an eye opener for the Indians though. The board needs to deal with players who cover up injury with an iron hand. How on earth could India dare to come to a tournament with their opening batsman and their opening bowler carrying serious injuries? Ridiculous. And it does seem like the Dhoni-BCCI honeymoon is over. Now the hypocrites from the board will start looking (and in most cases lobbying) for a new skipper.
Hope that when this is all over the Indians are prepared enough for the longer version. No, not the very long one - I mean the longer version of the shorter version - the F50 Champions trophy tournament that's coming up in September.
As for the rest of the tournament - I am happy to be the neutral observer. Now I feel Pakistan are the team to look out for. The miracle that I mentioned previously has indeed happened - India have gone out.
BTW. Did anyone notice something fishy at the toss on Sunday? MSD won the toss and did not even tell Colly what he was going to do. Colly had to find out from the commentator that they were going to bat. But here is the highlight. MSD had a strange explanation why he picked Ravi Jadeja in the team. He said because they were going to chase he picked Jadeja in the team. Now what was that supposed to mean? Was he stupid and did he give it away?
It's obvious what "it" means here.