Re: The sad fact about Indian Cricket.....
Our inability to unearth top-class bowlers is fairly well known....but now for the first time since I have been following Indian Cricket...I hardly see any budding batting potentials either.
The sad truth is that there is no future Gavaskar/Tendulkar/Azharuddin/Dravid in the horizon.......the best we have are the vastly mediocre Uthappas/Gambhirs/Venkat Raos...and that is not saying much.
Even a small nation (with far lesser population) like Sri Lanka appears to have a bigger pool of talented youngsters than India.
So we can clamour for the head of Tendulkar, Sehwag and the rest(and rightly so)...but where are their replacements....I do not see any.
And the Spin Department (traditionally India's strength) is another area which appears to be totally barren of young talents.
It is an interesting situation, one billion strong nation of cricket crazy people - but not enough talents to fill 11 slots.
Solution would be that give new guys extended run right after the worldcup.Yes team will suck for 1-2 season but they will get better. Also, even if these young guns will lose in first season they will still be going down fighting rather than meek surrended that existin DemiGods do.
Get Sehwag, Sachin, Agarkar, Ganguly, Robin, Bhajji and Kumble big boot and bring in Shikhar Dhawan, Ashish Pujara, Gambhir, Ranadeb Bose, Shahid Nadeed, Piyush Agarwal etc etc.
But will selectors have balls to drop Sachin and Ganguly. I doubt it. Nothing is gonna change. Most you will hear is that Robin,Bhajji and Agarkar are dropped and then same **** will continue.