Men in Blue: Thrashed Black and Blue

Well if every Indian consider himself to be a Cricket Pundit, how can people like me atleast who play cricket, should have a say on the game that symbolises countries major religion, with sachin as there demigod.
Even before the tournament had begun there were several theories running that India has a meagre chance of even winning a single match on pitches where it find itself very vulnereable to pace attack coupled to unexpected bounce. Every batsman had a wrecked time in this tournament except for Dhoni who played unconventional shots and thus survived. With heavy blame being poured out on Chappel and the Captain Dravid for such a miserable performance (0-4), The last time we performed so miserably was against srilanka(0-3). I myself feel there is no use in blaming the captain and coach for the poor team performance. Cricket is a team game, where contribution from entire 11 players finally end to team' victory. Coach-Captain discuss strategies based on every players performance, so if all player play miserably who is to be blamed. So the question is who is to blamed. The answer is more deep-rooted if we analyse the situation more correctly. Players weren't exposed to such bouncy pitches before thus struggled. So why doesnt the BCCI, spend it large share revenues in making such bouncy pitches like the one in Perth & Durban.
Next the local cricket tournament should be more vigorous, only when players have performed consitently should they selected for the national team. eg M. Hussey scored 15,000 runs at domestic level before joining the national team, and no doubt his test and cricket averages are best to date. Even Australian key players when axed from national team have to proof themself in domestic cricket before they join the national team. Even McGrath was not exempted from such rule before he joined the team for the Ashes. We might argue if players more at domestic level, by the time they join national team they might tend to be in late 20 and ealy 30, which is also close age of reteriment for many cricketers. The question to answer is wheter we want quality players, or mediocre young players. Thats the reason we might observe over the last few years there are just few players who have retained there place in the national team. Young players might have played well in national tournament, and when they play in International matches they lose to peer pressure, and finally whiter out to another young player awaiting his chance.
The solution lies in the fact that our national cricket matches should be made more competitively, how about making foreign cricketers join the national team, Like English county cricket. Unless these issues are addresed we cant hope sachin, dravid lead the team india to glory in every match they play, with there peak performance closing in as they approach there mid 30. So untill we really change our national cricket matches to that of english and australian domestic standard. We cant rely the big guns to perform and win matches for the country.