Starting Sri Lankan visit to India mid of 2006, followed by England visit- a period of unimaginable foolishness started in Indian Cricket. Chief architect of this period was Mr. Kiran More with his venomous tactics and lousy tantrums.

Team India had a new captain, babbling and blenching youth crusade, a couple of series wins over effete opponents in the home baked pitches and we have a millions of Indian cricket fans going CRAZY about "No fear, No failure & that’s Team India. Everyday in news we have one or the other cricket pundit thankfully esteeming Team India, its new captain and it's new found treasure chest. Be it a team meeting, a press conference, a one-to-one interview, a news paper article, it never ends without the mention of World Cup. I still remember, even Sehwag with his hard earned (learned) wicked English, mentioning "v r no looockin two win d world cup, Sourav Ganguly is 4gotten istory".

That’s exactly when everything had gone wrong. We are so self obsessed with ourselves that we forgot to improve upon our weaknesses

4) Personal agendas: Just like everyone had a role to play, every one had a goal to reach

Each one in Team India has a personal agenda of his own. Rahul wants to complete 10,000 runs, win overseas and at least get a couple of one day wins more than his predecessor such that his winning percentage looks good and he could be most successful captain. Greg has two fundamental objectives 1) To keep Sourav out of the team 2) Not to forget the 1st objective. Kiran more wants to make money through business nexus, Sharad Pawar wants to gallop Dalmiya. Sehwag wants to work on his in English, Srisanth wants to compose music, Yuvi wants Page-3 coverage, Zaheer wants flying kisses, Dhoni wants more hair and more ads. And so on.

5) Differences: Two power centers within the team

Clearly, there were two power centers in the team. One does what Greg asks them to do and the other does exactly some thing that asked not to do. Sourav who meant for his personal favoritism is never going to stay calm once he finds his way back into the team. Incidentally, he needs no establishment as he has his own crew of boys. And as I stated earlier, (here), differences did perilously fire right back at the right time.

Don't you think there is something else behind loosing 15 and odd ODI finals in the last 3, 4 years apart from collective failures on the respective day??

6) Planning: Too much is too bad

We started preparing the team for World cup 24 months ago, and by the time it kicks of none of the team probables could make it. Those who managed to crawl are down with injuries. Round the clock cricket & rudimentary domestic circuit. Slow pitches, weak opponents and back to back series crowns. Too much of money, too many strategies, too many expectations, too loud applauds and hence too embarrassing desolation.

7) Media: And it’s ‘guns and roses’

Undoubtedly, media has it’s lion's share in this downfall for portraying the players as 'Achilles and Legends' with domestic wins & as 'Clods and Chokers' after the oversea defeats. The comparisons and equations have been as volatile as our stock markets, as irrational as Bangalore climate as uncanny as saas bahu series'. Media had illogically manipulated the expectations in public with lead to insurmountable pressure, & a complete collapse.

8) Lack of commitment: Grab the right one!!

If ever- any player, any official, any level-headed master of the game in Team India would have taken a good look at our itinerary before the world cup, he would have known that ours is the most competitive group with three test playing nations. One would have easily guessed that any slippage in the first game - a virtual end-of-road.
None of the players seemed to have zeal to start with, we beat Bangadesh in most of the encounters we had, and we beat Sri Lanka 8 out 10 occasions in the last 18 months. Yet, winning in right matches at right times is all what matters.

9) Strong and vindictive opponents: It’s your day make it large!!

As stated in my last column, we have two our old true friends coaching our opponents in the group. Who were comprehensively outweighed by Guru Greg earlier? Apart from that, of late we started beating Sri Lanka as easily as drive through Mumbai- Pune express way, it's celestially clear that given a chance and gifted a day Lanka want to gobble out the whole Team India.

10) Corporates: Hoo .. Haa India !! & Ab har ghar mein Sachin

Last but not the least, a little uncricketing reason, yet has got a lot to do with this wrecking. Take a good look at amount of money spinning around any "Brand X (Team India Player)", the traction that it creates, the visibility it brings. They are simply too many, since we don’t have such a multifaceted laddies yet in Team India, all this boils down to a thorough devastation if not anything else.