Every Indian cricket fan's pulse would be racing a bit faster out of the sheer anger over Team India's most recent debacle in Perth. Such poor display in all the three departments of our game wasn't expected out of the current team. Prognosis was that we could be the team to beat Australia in Australia, this illusion has been completely squashed.
This team was hailed to achieve greatness after winning the World Cup and scaling the No.1 slot in the Test Rankings, we shouldn't have had such high expectations in the first place as both these feats were achieved while playing at home most of the times and by players who are on the verge of retirement. Hopefully post England and Australia we will learn to put our house in order, as always we can take some tips from Aussies in this respect. Cricket Australia (CA) constituted an independent committee to identify the problems which were plaguing Australian cricket even though their standards hadn't dropped to where India has reached. Knowing the kind of people we and BCCI are, I am pretty sure we won't have anything even 1% similar to that.
My remedies for improving our performance are nothing new, these steps are known to one and all.
1) Make more sporting pitches in India
2) Atleast one India A tour to Australia, England and South Africa every year (easily possible with the clout BCCI has over world cricket ), by this we will have a standby team, good bench strength and competition within the official team
3) Do not over schedule
4) Provide enough number of practise matches before the 1st Test
We also need to give credit to the way Australians have performed not only in this Test Series but also the never-die attitude that they bring to any sport played by them. Some of the best matches ever played in cricket have always involved Australian sides because of their attitude and fighting spirit. Also a word of thanks to T20 cricket which has made test matches more interesting, most of the series that have been played over the course of last 2-3 years have been result oriented post its advent.
