Anti Climax

After a lot of build up, indian team lost. Jury is now out on why we lost. Inquest has begun. Kirsten's theory of blaming IPL fits in the tradition of typical western condescene towards whatever indian which according to them is anything but subtle. Westerners (with exceptions) think themselves to be sublte, balanced and saviors of world. Far from it, howsoever polished they may be they can take a unidimensional view of self interest and superiority. anyways thats beyond the topic. Point is all major players except winner pakistanis were in IPL too say westindies, SA, Srilanka. so fatigue has some difference sense in modern cricket.
Other justifications are nature of T20 which has luck as major factor, wrong tactics etc are valid in bits and peices. For me following are points of concern
1. Bench Strength of Indian team is weak, inexperienced and overhyped. All past major succcess ( post ODI worldcup 07) can be attributed to individual brilliances of sachin, yuvraj, sehwag or dogged determination of Kumble, Dravid, Gambhir. The fringe players got good exposure via IPL and IPL has helped in that way. But they lack quality and approach of above mentioned showstoppers in indian team. Batsmen are flat track bullies and Bowlers are anything but consistent
2. Bowling inconsistencies: difference in winning and losing is ability to produce 6 good balls in over. You can have 4 good balls in an over with say 3 runs. if you concede a wide and a boundary on any two (in whatever order) over goes for 8 runs which is decent. We did have very few good overs in super8s. That made huge difference. We won last world cup because we were able to produce good overs (remember those which choked SA and in Semifinals against Australia after symonds wicket). Noone seemed to care about this point year after year.
3. Lack of transparancy about injuries: sehwags exit was knockout punch which boosted opposition. Has sehwags injury known, we could have requested Sachin to be a part . That would have been master strike demoralizing opposition bowling. If not Sachin, we would have had someone like Manish Pandey to create unknown factor.(just like yusuf pathan factor in last finals). These injuries affected fielding as well.
4. Tactically we did not focus on opposition weakness: In IPL, it was proven that Bravo is not a good player of short delivery outside off, but we played by piching him up. same with KP, we bowled too many leg side deliveries where he is very comfortable. No approach while batting.
5. Club level fielding: Not much to add, maybe we would have been worst fielding side in torurnament.
6. crucial goof ups like sending jadeja ahead of Yuvraj, playing out of form Ishant ahead of Inform RP, not promoting yusuf pathan.
rest as they say is history.