I am always wondering what is wrong with the current Indian team and their winning record. This team has legends in the batting order with Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, they also have very good batsmen in Saurav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag and VVS Laxman. India is blessed with world class spinners in Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh. Yes we all agree India’s bowlers are not great but each can be devastating on their day. Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan and Ashish Nehra can all be match winners, but why is India still not performing well? Below I have made a list of things I think is stopping India’s success on the field.

Fielding
Indians fielding is pathetic, admit it guys it is ****! Muhammad Kaif and Yuvrag Singh are the only decent fielders in the team but they are no help with the bat. In ODI cricket is crucial to stop the singles and restrict the batsmen, but India are constantly giving singles away, 1 runs become 2 runs, 2 runs become 3 runs and 3 runs become 4 runs because the lazy Indians don’t work harder and bend their backs. Fielding just doesn’t make the score board look good it also helps the morale of the fielding team, I know how it feels when your team members miss-fields and drops catches its no good for the team morale. Greg Chappel must talk to the Indians about this HUGE problem, India must improve in the fielding if they are to be world beaters.

Ego’s
I think all the Indian players have big ego’s which I think is killing the teams morale and morale is most important. The team must be like a unity like a family if they are to be a successful team, look at England, they all look like friends and they all call each other with nicknames like Freddie, lord brokect etc. The Indian players probably call Ganguly the Royal Highness! Look at Zaheer Khan’s performance with Asia XI, he was terrific but why doesn’t he perform like that with the Indian team? I think that it is due to the morality and the unity of the team. I know that when a team-mate is intimidating it is hard for you to perform. Guys have you ever so the Indian team in the field or when they are batting? The chewtiya’s are always swearing at each other, each other’s mother and sister etc. They are never happy, only when they take a wicket are they happy and that is only for the cameras. These guys need a counselling man, they need to know how to be friends and how to communicate with each other without using the word benchought.

Effort
I have supported India more, with a passion I cannot describe. The reason I used to support India with so much passion was the way they used to play, they would never give up and they always showed full effort, look at Kapil Dev who hit 4 consecutive sixes to save the follower-on, my dad still talks of that particular innings till this day. But that has all changed, I am no longer seeing the effort by the Indian players, look at our loss against Pakistan. Pakistan didn't even have their best bowlers and they still beat us because they played their hearts out, they played with full effort, I didn't see any effort by the players. If we look at the 3rd test of the series only Sehwag was playing for the win, the rest of the team played so crap, and put no effort in. when I looked at the world cup 2003 final where Australia and India played for the cup, India were trashed by the Australian batsmen, the score was 359-2 with only Harbhajan taking the wickets, but even with this score I thought India could still win, but I was cruelly mistaken I saw no effort by the Indians to bat well, yes the Australians bowled well but I would have liked to see more effort, there was no effort by the Indians when Tendulkar was dismissed by Glenn Magrath, I was deeply sadden when India lost that final, but I was more sadden that they didn't show that effort I and many India fans were looking for. The Indians need to put in 100% effort if they want to win.