India fancy themselves for the 2007 World Cup. But the moral is, they shouldn't peak too early. The challenge would be to keep winning yet hold the key members of the side in good shape for the big event.
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India is not willing to let go on Sehwag or Kaif. If it must change horses mid-stream, the time to do it is now.
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He is nearly always politically correct and nearly always boring in his public stance on issues and men. I wonder if a frenzied media has shaped his approach for he can be lucid and thoughtful in private.
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England must decide if they want to grind their best player to dust or keep him in shape for this winter's Ashes and the 2007 World Cup.
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India have lately been thinking out of the box. The options due to experiments have steadily piled on in the last six months.
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The Rainas and Powars can make the likes of Dhonis and Pathans look like old hats and can give jitters to the Yuvraj-Kaif combine in batting and Harbhajan in bowling.
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England as a Test side keeps moving upwards while its stock in one-day cricket is slipping everyday. India is a side reborn in one-day cricket while in Tests, it's almost on a life-support system.
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Winning the toss and opting to field, dropping catches galore and some ordinary batting are the obvious slips which come to mind. India would also reflect if playing five bowlers or shuffling the batting order hurt them.
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Kumble was giving the ball a loop and his leg-breaks were turning. He seems to have finally got the one thing which has missed him all his career.
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It would nag Kumble and Harbhajan why they failed in Nagpur, while Monty Panesar, just out of his cricketing nappies, was such an influence on the same surface.
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