In the month of madness

A long time ago, I had blogged that we have unrealistic expectations of the Indian cricket team. In that post I had written: The Indian team is not a great team that frequently underachieves. Rather it is a merely good team that occasionally overachieves. I am not surprised that they team is back in India and the players are waiting for the axe to drop.

When talking about Indian cricket these days the name of the game is to find a scapegoat, someone to blame for the early exit from the World Cup. Instead the key question should be why we lost. Until we sit and think about it there will be a lot of finger-pointing, pointless effigy-burning, character assassinations, and free-flowing advice (on the lines of it being time for people to retire).

Mud-slinging is not something new and sadly the main reason for all the melodrama is to obfuscate the main issue. Prem Panicker, on his blog, has an extended discourse on how this is achieved and what it has done for the people involved in the mess.

Elsewhere, Mukul Kesavan, writes about it in some detail here. Here is an excerpt that rings really true.

No one will ever agree on why we got eliminated because every interested party will set his causal explanation in a different time frame.