India, Nov. 27 -- A day before South Africa broke past India's feeble resistance in the Guwahati Test match, the BCCI headquarters hosted an event welcoming a new sponsor that would add Rs.45 crore to their flowing coffers. It's a common story in the Indian cricket industry, which continues to flourish despite on-field setbacks.

After being blanked twice in the last three home Test series, BCCI will look to take stock with head coach Gautam Gambhir and chief selector Ajit Agarkar at some stage of the surfeit of white-ball internationals coming up next.

While it may be convenient to overlook the Test debacles with India's next Test roughly eight months away, there are WTC trophy bragging rights at stake and the format is structurally too...