One defeat and we start blaming our captain and his inability to play good fast bowling. I am rather surprised that he is still compared with Sachin Tendulkar. How long will this comparison go on? What else has he to do? That said, how many did Sachin score in the first innings? And when has he played a true match-winning innings? This meaningless comparison should end. Srivathsan

India lost because they have a captain who can't bat against good fast bowling; they have VVS Laxman who bats only when his place is in trouble; they have Virender Sehwag who has been made into another Tendulkar just because he did well against ordinary bowling at home; and they have two bowlers, Ajit Agarkar and Ashish Nehra who aren't fit to play in the Ranji Trophy. Vishal

As long as the Indian cricket board (BCCI) views gate collection as the purpose of a Test match, and as long as the Indian crowd wants to watch only a win for India (as distinguished from watching a good game of cricket), Indian pitches will continue to be the sticky pots they are now and offer no training on how to play on a fast bouncy pitch. Before the West Indian tour to India began, much noise was raised by the BCCI and Mr Kasturirangan about how the pitches had been relaid to come up to international standards (as regards bounce and trueness). When the series started, we found Indian spinners turning the ball a mile in the very first session on day one of the game. N. Subramanian

I've watched India through some good and some bad times, but this is one of the worst in recent memory. That being said, with the amount of cricket they are playing and the fact that they had almost no time to get set in alien conditions, where the pitches are as different to the dustbowls in India as you get, the team has an excuse for its really spineless performance. No one is calling this Indian team world class - they do not seem to have the temperament for it, but they have enough talent that they cannot be classified as being rank bad either. Navin

John Wright remarked that if India don't win a series abroad this year they never will. That seems quite true as the Indians have played all the weak teams and managed to emerge without a single series win. We continue to have the most formidable batting line up but one that is insipid when playing abroad. I guess it's high time we put an end to all this hype and accept that we are no good when it comes to Test cricket on sporting pitches. P.N.Subramanian

You can't judge team by one bad performance. This Indian's first bad performance in 2002 while Bangladesh are consistantly doing bad since getting Test status. It is difficult adapt to the conditions and pitch. Also, the Indians didn't have more than one practice game. Riz

You got much mileage out of Bangladesh's collapse against West Indies. Hopefully you will now turn your attention to India's ineptitude against New Zealand. Should they be ousted from Test cricket as well, or are these fluke results? Bangladesh fared no worse in their Tests in New Zealand than India just did. Rafiq Ahmed

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