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Is Duncan Fletcher being made a scapegoat...?

New Delhi: By appointing Ravi Shastri, a former India captain, as a director for  ODI series against England which humiliated India in the test series by 3-1 win, BCCI might have given a single to



But it becomes a different ball game once these same batsmen step on a foreign soil. You just can't expect them to change their style or for that matter, method they are used to for years. Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman were exceptions who adopted to alien conditions and changed game accordingly and that's why they are among the finest batsmen this game has seen so far.

Whenever team India suffers such kind of defeats, immediately there is demand for making fast and bouncy wickets so that our batsmen can cope up with the fearsome bowlers who visit India. But fearing that they might lose on home ground also, BCCI ignores the reality and cricket is continued the way it has been.