India, July 4 -- Despite being called a team sport, the game of Cricket has not always been a battle of eleven versus eleven. If you look at it closely, what we have in the Indian cricket team is a bunch of below average, mediocre mixed with one or two exceptionally talented players who can turn things around completely on their own. It is because we don't have options, we are a manpower abundant but talent scarce country and the sport, for its part, does not require us to field all our best talents, just one or two will do just fine.
Nine out of ten times, a good performance by those one or two will be enough for us to change the game on its head. We started treating Cricket as something special. This development simply wiped out all the ...