ALL IS WELL, INSISTS BCCI

All is well with the Indian T 20 team, says the BCCI.
All is well, especially, with its captain MS Dhoni, it adds with emphasis.

So, forget the fact that our top batsmen ran away from short-pitched balls in the T20 WC. Or, they gave catching practise off them.
So, forget that the batsmen had forgotten to play cricketing shots. That they played a T20 game with the mindset of a T 5 game.
They could not even clear the ropes when they were required to for a win.
That, aware of their inability against fast bowling, but eager to protect their big-hitting reputations built on dead tracks of India at the same time, the batsmen tried hitting their way out of tough situations.
But, they could find only the fielders.

All is well, though our bowlers failed miserably.
Dhoni's two big hopes, Zaheer and Harbhajan, among them, have hardly any scalp to show in their kitty.
The part-timers gave the matches away to the opposition by leaking runs.

Dhoni chose spin, when pace was the need.
He chose the likes of Kartick, Jadeja, Vijay Zaheer, when Rohit Sharma, Vinay Kumar, Umesh Yadav could have done the job.
He chose being stubborn, when flexibility would have won him the day.

The BCCI lives in a state of denial.
Worse, it will get away with it.
They are the think-tanks that keep the likes of Dravid, Pragyan Ojha, Robin Uthappa, Amit Mishra out. For paper-tigers like M Vijay, Jadeja, Kartick, etc.
The government needs to dissolve this body and scrap the selection panel.


And, begin anew.