What about the medium-term goals?
All the discourse after India's dismal tours of England and Australia has been about a structural overhaul of Indian cricket, Siddhartha Vaidyanathan says on his blog , but, while that is a worthy aspiration, it is unlikely to happen
Dustin Silgardo
25-Feb-2013
All the discourse after India's dismal tours of England and Australia has been about a structural overhaul of Indian cricket, Siddhartha Vaidyanathan says on his blog, but, while that is a worthy aspiration, it is unlikely to happen. He says India needs to focus on goals for the next four or five years, and work on those.
India go through four Tests with almost no change in personnel. Do the captain and coach think Rohit Sharma is fit for Test cricket? Is he part of their medium-term vision? Wasn’t it worth giving him at least one – yes, one – Test to try and gauge his temperament? Hasn’t Virat Kohli shown us the benefits of persisting with a young cricketer? Where do Dravid, Laxman and Tendulkar fit into the Test team’s medium-term future? Do the selectors plan to sit back and wait (an agonizing wait) for the players to decide on their own exits?
Dustin Silgardo is a former sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo