Better if Dhoni makes proper plans for his own team too.

http://cricket.yahoo.com/cricket/news/article?id=item/2.0/-/cricket.yahoonews.com/12316235c11913dcbb39776d3ad3b/



A detailed plan against Pakistan by the Indians reveal they view Misbahul Haq as "pivotal in the batting line-up" who possesses great cricketing brain, can be inventive, has deceptive strike rate, is good runner between the wickets, plays well with the tail, likes to drive and is a good player of spin�in essence a perfect batsman to come up against.

However, Pakistan's pace bowling spearhead Umar Gul is seen as one who "doesn't have patience or big heart," and can lose cool when he is being hit around.

Other key men in Pakistan line-up, like Younis Khan in batting and Sohail Tanvir in bowling are viewed with mixed feeling by the Indians.

Younis Khan is termed as "mentally very strong" who lofts the ball straight and isa good player of spin. However, he is also viewed as a nervous starter, often confused in matter of shot selection and is a good candidate for a lbw decision at the start of his innings.

As for Tanvir, he is praised on a few points�such as it's difficult to pick his action, more so in day-night games and has a wonderful yorker, can effect great change of pace and a good fielder off his bowling. However, he is seen as someone who takes things for granted and experiments rather too much.

Another key man Shahid Afridi is termed as "pure match-winner" who likes to hit in the V. However, he is one who "doesn't like to be sledged at"; doesn't like the short-pitched stuff and can't handle spinners very well.

Left-handed opener is praised for being "extremely wristy" and point and cover-point is his area. However, Butt isn't seen fluent on the leg side and his head falls over the incoming ball, making him an lbw candidate.

Wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal is one who loves the cut and the pull and "midwicket is his six-hitting area."

However, Akmal can throw away his wicket and has a weakness outside the off-stump, a prime candidate for slip-catching practice.

This time around I feel its good that India lost.. They needed this to break down their over confidence.. And in a statement after loosing he says the team is more depressed than the fans.. I mean how could he even say that.. I agree they will be depressed, but emotions are all the same.. This time its Dhoni himself who is responsible for the loss.. He has become too arrogant in recent times.. Why bring in Ravindra Jadeja before Yuvi?? Dhoni played it wrong and its better he learns a lesson very soon..

I agree with you Anu completely... India lost it big time with their over-confidence! It was working very well as one cohesive unit at one time... But now, there are too many issues within the team... There was so many factions... And then the captain and the coach are just speaking poles apart... I would tend to agree with Kirstein to an extent that the players played too many matches in IPL or otherwise before the tournament and were heavily fatigued... The IPL thing is also creating a sort of rivalry between the players, and all of them being the captain of their respective IPL teams have too many things to say.. Indian cricketers still dont seem to have the maturity to segregate national cricket from club cricket!

I agree with the above post by Jaya but there is a larger picture. Our batsmen are not good at playing short pitch high speed delivery, actually Saurabh Ganguly sort of epitomised the weakness of us, now South Africa has proved we can't even play genuine spin. So what are we? A batting bully on flat pitches of India. Yet we all know India has only chance of winning a series in abroad because of traditionally weak bowling line. Fast and turning pitches will help our bowlers while conventional edge in batting will be fine.