Road to Become no.1 in test again

[Rahul Dravid]

Our fall is inevitable as and when Big three retires or they do not perform collectively like in this series. Be realistic, Aus tour will be tough for them unless young batsmen do not perform there is no hope we could stop this fall getting out of top four teams. It has to happen and it happened in one of the most awful ways in England. Four of our best test players are on the verge of retirement SRT, RD, VVS, ZAK and without them, we will never be what we were before this England series. Forget about no. 1, it will happen itself as Dhoni said if we do well consistently. First we need to see how to stay competitive after these retirements. By, England home series next year, we may not see them playing and England will almost be the same team which they are now. It is a real probability.

i think Rahul, Sachin and VVS will be there atleast till the England series at home... they ain't retiring this fast.. specially after seeing how poorly our youngsters have been playing.

[Cricket Tragic]

Yeah, enough delusional arguments that we haven't lost at home in last years. We don't need to just avoid series loss. In last 16 matches we have won 9. It means we didn't win in 7 matches. Of course only 1 resulted in loss and rest were draw. But we need to convert those to 14-15 wins out of 20 from now on. Indian pitches have become too easy and they don't help spinners even on 5th day. Certainly this is not a good pitch even as a home team. Prepare some typical sub-continent type pitches and then see the results. It's the era where teams need to maintain complete dominance at home.

Exactly. The series against NZ was the perfect example. 1-0 against them at home is a poor return. We have to ensure that we don't do the same thing against WI. If we get flat wickets, Chandercrawl could bat for 3 days and we'll get more boring draws.