India's cricketers have provided a necessary crisis

Thanks to the consistent defeats over the last few months in England and Australia, India's thick-skinned cricket officials cannot pretend that all is well and that if you throw a few million dollars at the problem it will go away, says Suresh Menon, writing for Cricket Next.

Tendulkar might have overstayed his welcome in the shorter form of the game but - to get back to the question we started with - who will tell him that? He might still have a role to play in rebuilding the Indian batting in Test cricket, and it was believed that chief selector Kris Srikkanth being his first captain might just be the man to sit Tendulkar down and advice him. But it didn't happen, Tendulkar has decided to play in the Asia Cup in Dhaka where, hopefully he will make his quite meaningless 100th international century and re-focus on the present rather than on posterity.

Perhaps it is just as well that India did not win the tri-series in Australia. Victory is a universal solvent, dissipating such matters as team weaknesses, individual failures and sensible views about rebuilding