Its Aussies Vs W.Indes, Sri Lanka Vs Pakistan for a Semi-Final spot

Having been at 46/3in 6.1 overs, I would have expected Dhoni to be more positive with his approach by giving Ashwin the next over. Instead he gave it to Balaji, who conceded 13 runs in that over thus making life further difficult for himself and India to take it to Semi-Finals.

This Indian team looks good on paper, but, when it comes to execution, it always depends on the performance of certain individuals like Kohli, Dhoni, Pathan and Ashwin. If one or two of these fail, then the team fails. Such is the dependency of these individuals and even if it looks heavy on the paper, they fail miserably as a unit. This is one of the reason that I have not rated India to make it to the semi-finals. It was pathetic to watch Gambhir and Sehwag get out yesterday - sometimes I felt if it was worth spending our time on this!!

It is high time India looks beyond certain individuals, like how Aussies have done. Have a very young team which means that Gambhir, Sehwag, Rohit, Zaheer, Balaji should all go. Make Kohli as the captain of the T20 and his aggressive and positive approach along with the induction of Under-19 performance will see India more balanced, probably, a year from now.

To me, as predicted earlier in one of the columns, I see West Indies and Sri Lanka to make it to the finals.