When Rahul Dravid took over as India’s head coach in November, he claimed his primary job for the first few months would be to sit back and observe. Moments after his team was blanked 3-0 in the ODIs in South Africa on Sunday, he termed the series as an eye-opener.
The Indian team landed in Johannesburg in mid-December as overwhelming favourites, much like the travelling Australian sides at the turn of this century. Forty days later, a spirited South African team — battling cultural and cricketing issues — has exposed the soft underbelly of the Indian team. The much-ignored chronic problems in India’s white-ball cricket, suddenly flared up, exposing the frailties in a system that was working fine for years.
An undercooked middle-order and the lack of sixth-bowling option have been hurting India’s white-ball cricket for a while but what this tour has done is it has also brought the lack of clarity to the surface. The lack of ODI cricket in the past two years has been the goto alibi for this team though.
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