Serious and honest soul searching is required

We lost again with a considerable margin in Boxing Day test against Australia. Getting defeated is not bad but habit of getting defeated is dangerous and I am sad to see that Team India is going in that mode. I still believe the biggest problem with the Indian team is larger than sport image of few Indian players. We (the fan) and Indian media unnecessarily make them hero with a modest performance. For example, in first inning Sachin scored 62 and that was enough for all the media (print and electronics) and fans to praise him heavily and start day dreaming about his performance in 2nd inning of the test to win the match. At the same time, poor chap Phil Jaques scored 2 fifties in two innings and has marvelous career records (till now) but no one knows him. Dada scores a 40+ and everywhere we start talking what a comeback dada? At the same time look at this guy ... Hussey. He almost averages 80 (Sachin and Dravid struggling to reach average of 60 and Dada is below 50 in test average) in test cricket but he doesn’t think he is bigger than game and go to field to just perform to the best. Talks less but perform well. That’s the story of all Australian players. But almost all STAR Indian players have attitude problem. Last Indian coach Greg Chappell has indeed raised this issue but no one gave a serious thought towards this. People started lambasting him and he was shown the door by BCCI. But its fact that the attitude of (STAR) cricketer has been always a problem and because of that team could never performs as a team. Even in today newspaper Indian cricket manager (Lalchand Rajput) accepted that Yuvraj Singh is having an attitude problem. Fortunately Anil Kumble is still not in the same league. Indian captain deserve lot more praise and media attention that some of the other Indian player (if compared) and he doesn’t have attitude problem. Whenever he is in filed, he tries to perform to his best. One more problem with the team is to avoid doing serious soul searching and always be in day dreaming mode. On the eve of 3rd day of Boxing Day test, Harbhajan singh told the media that getting 500 runs (in 4th inning of the test) might not be impossible and difficult for such a great batting lineup of India with so many big names. Poor sardar is also a pampered Indian cricketer who doesn’t know how deep we are in water.