Home series with Australia: reality check.

6 days left before the home series against Australia kicks off. There is 7 ODIs to be played. Is the Indian team ready and geared up to face an Australian team that has been in splendid form this season in the one-dayers ?

I have my doubts. Looking at the recent performances I guess anybody would have a doubt. The confidence with which the team had been playing for the most part of the last two years is nowhere to be seen. Particularly the batting. It has been worst. In more ways than one Dhoni, the guy who seemed like he would steer the team around from any situation, is out done by his opponents more than countable number of times in the recent past.

It hasn't started recently. Perhaps it started sometime during the IPL when Dhoni looked like he cannot play cricket anymore or so said his demeanour. Gambhir, the magician of the previous two seasons, is all but in good form. His batting debacles are endless. Middle order has become so predictable that one might even wonder if they are watching a repeat of the previous match. Its being absolutely pathetic.

And the selection process doesn't help either. Nobody in the world knows why Rahul Dravid was brought back into the one day team and now dropped. Virat Kohli doesn't probably know why he is being given chances after chances.

I do not know how much does this drop in morale of the team has to do with the pre-T20 world cup saga of Veeru suddenly dropping out on injury and all kinds of stories emanating about a rift between him and Dhoni etc.

I hope the team would come over its short comings in the recent past and be the team that it had been when it had beaten Australia at home the last season.

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