Bengaluru, Nov. 28 -- By the time India folded for another humiliating defeat at home, there was a sense of dread that felt eerily familiar - the dread of a great institution collapsing not in a blaze of catastrophe, but in a slow, steady, almost bureaucratic slide.
After the 0-2 home debacle against South Africa, Indian cricket has seemingly arrived at a moment where its own mythology weighs more than its performance.
What follows is not just a report on cricket. It is a case file. A dossier. A dissection of how a team that once commanded the world on its own soil began stumbling like a heavyweight who suddenly forgot how to punch.
The official statements that emerged after the series sounded strangely serene. "Learnings." "Long-term pl...