Mistakes that the Indian team made ...

1. The biggest culprit has been unfortunately the Captain himself. His unneccessary backing of Parthiv Patel is possibly the biggest selectorial blunder he has made. His inexperience in keeping upto spinners of calibre like Kumble and Harbhajan has let the team down in crucial situations in this series. Those are the moments that have made lot of difference.

2. Saurav Ganguly hinting that he would prefer Yuvraj over Aakash, much in advance, certainly had the negative effect on Aakash Chopra, that too considering the fact that Chopra was one of the reason for the phenemenonal showing of India in Australia last year and that Yuvraj is not really skilled enough to be an opener. It was like, kill the horse that works the most. Ganguly has done enormous injustice and damage to the career of Aakash Chopra.

3. Ganguly in the process of supporting players, might have inflicted harm to the psyche of extremely talented but currently unsuited players like Parthiv and Yuvraj. Not sure how and when they would bounce back from this disaster.

4. Ganguly's outburst against the Nagpur pitch put the mickey into the batsman's minds and possibly was the biggest reason for this feeble display of batsmanship. We would have lost anyway but the margin and the manner in which we lost was purely Saurav Ganguly's making. Rahul Dravid was for that matter far more eloquent of the pitch factor which certainly was the way to go.

5. The flexibility in thinking , India have played many matches on green tops and in recent times have won on such pitches too. Didn't it strike them to include Ashish Nehra in the team instead of Murali Kartik. In foreign pitches, we do have 3+1 formula, we have done that in past, so why can't we think out of the box. Most of the planning was rigid and fixed, with no room for flexibility. Why do we alway have to go with two spinners ?

6. Rahul Dravid was correct, in his assessment that it's not wrong to have a such pitch but then it has to began from the grassroot levels, one needs to play more Ranji matches on such pitches, instead we just chose to, out of the blue, have a green top right for an International match, and our batsman were left facing the opponents who relish these type of pitches. Groom the youngsters for few years on this kind of pitches and then slowly start replacing these type of pitches, even for the international matches. The Administration has goofed up and have been short-sighted. They are equally to blame here.

7. Instead of planning and foresight, Indian team management chose to wait for magic to happen. Miracles don't happen twice. Both Ganguly and Wright have to take responsibility for this.