As has been written about quite a bit, the Champions Trophy showed up India's bench strength quite starkly. In the absence of Yuvraj, Sehwag, and Zaheer and with Ishant and Harbhajan being so off-colour, the second rung couldn't quite pull together a single performance worthy of a world-beating side. Both the batting and bowling are to blame but I think the former has not got as much attention as it merits because the bowling was so dreadful. An initial look at the potential line-up for the 2011 World Cup would suggest Tendulkar (assuming he's fit and still around), Sehwag, Gambhir, Yuvraj, and Dhoni as certainties. A strong batting line-up that but very often, the difference in crunch games comes from who's at 6 and 7. Suresh Raina and Yusuf Pathan currently occupy those spots but neither of them have made too much of their chances there. Raina averages 35 after 71 matches and while those are not bad figures, he has not played a match-winning hand often enough from tha