Indian Cricket: Old Lessons Same Mistakes, Inexcusable Results

It is plain flabbergasting that despite years of having suffered similar humiliation, the Indian cricket’s think tank is now choosing to gloss over the defeats...

- Sreelata S. Yellamrazu

While the Indian team tries to assuage the stinging loss of another Test series abroad by touting a rare Test win in the dead rubber, there is no one but team India and the Indian cricket board to blame for undermining the importance of tour matches and in turn, an important Test series overseas.

Yet again, for all of the bravado showed by the abrasive skipper, Virat Kohli, and the straight talking and experienced Ravi Shastri, the team’s head coach, neither thought it relevant enough to hammer it upon the cricket board in India the need to organize a couple of tour matches ahead of the all-important three Test match series pitched against the world’s second ranked Test team in the world.