The worst thing that could happen to Indian cricket in the next week is for them to win at Nagpur and square a series in which they have been thoroughly outplayed. Now I didn't have as visceral a reaction as say Siddharth Vaidyanathan but maybe that was because the result was not a surprise. England worked hard after the defeat in Ahmedabad whereas the Indians seemed to play with an attitude that suggested that they could just turn up and win. Culturally, we Indians tend to go easy on ourselves given half a chance and (in case we win in Nagpur) the temptation will therefore be to ignore the continuing decline the side is and focus only on short term changes. The rousing World Cup win in April 2011 can now (in hindsight) clearly be seen as the end of a long successful period after which the team needed renewal. The signs were replete through the rest of the year but the team and management kept turning a blind eye. 0-4 bashings in England and Australia were conveniently put down a...