I don't mind criticizing their behavior as far as practice session goes but this sound wrong info to me, Indian team reached England around June 3rd and stayed at bio bubble. They had 1 county match schedule but it got cancelled due to logistic and new covid cases that's why they had to play intra squad match. IMO Team could have arrive there at the same time as New Zealand team then may be , things could have much better in terms of practice.
@7788bitcoin 2 first class (3-4days) match never hurts the schedule if you're playing 5 match series. I do agree Indian team schedule is hectic and covid didn't help much. Problem is Players are cash cow for BCCI and arrogant skipper-coach combination is not helping much too.
The calendar is hectic and there is no doubt about it. But for test and T20/ODI, they now have separate teams, right? At least players such as Rahane, Pujara and Ishant (who are not part of the ODI/T20 squad) could have arrived earlier and participated in some practise matches. Anyway, the IPL is about to start in a couple of months and for the players (both Indian and foreign), the IPL is much more important when compared to the WTC. There are rumors that the BCCI want to restructure the team after WTC final defeat. But I don't think that they have a backbone to act against Kohli.
This idea is about to kick in so we have to wait and watich, let's see how it pans out. Why only test specialists? BCCI announced their test squad way back in 8-10th May because Ipl got postponed around 3rd-ish may, everyone was free after that they could have take 20 days break and arrive 1 week early in England if they were serious about the Finals. Having said that, they are still one of the best test team. IMO major Criticism coming because this team has so much potential but they are wasting every oppourtunity.
I have a feeling that if any changes come then Rahane-Pujara could be their new scapegoat.
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So we all agree there's a problem with people and their attitudes if they come from our region then. And it's a very difficult cycle to pinpoint. On one hand, we know the conditions we live in and culturally even, bringing family and spouses shouldn't be frowned upon (it's really what makes it even possible for many of them to play professionally, imagine if they ignored their families the hell it would be for their personal lives haha).
But yes, covid is a big big problem and we can't discount that BUT even with preparations all in place, as you said, the arrogance is what put them down in the end.
Yeah, its subcontinent problem When team wins then no one cares, we make them heroes but things get out of the hand when they lose. I'm not in favor of bringing their personal life into cricket and i don't subscribe to this behavior.
I agree with the fact that Kohli is not good at winning big cups, but so many are downplaying his contributions because of this one factor. He is an aggressive captain who isn't afraid to express his emotions which isn't a bad thing.
However, I do feel that India needs separate captains for separate formats(ODI: Kohli, T-20: Rohit, Test: Rahane/Kohli).
More importantly Ravi Shastri need to go for good. His contract ending after T-20 WC, hope BCCI find some one else after that. Not sure about Test captaincy but in limited over (esp T-20) cricket Kohli is shit as captain.
. These are extraordinary performance by the New Zealand bowlers and the Indian batsman did not do anything to win the match 
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