Will the Indian cricket board display some will?

All said and done, World Cup 2007 has turned out to the worst world cup outing for the Indian cricket team since 1979, when it lost all three of its games. What is perhaps most galling is that the team went into the world cup as one of the favorites, as opposed to in 1979 when it played in the World Cup for appearances sake alone. The team had on paper one of the strongest batting line-ups. It had the highest paid coach in the game - a former cricket great. What was missing quite clearly was the desire and will to win. For this reason alone, the youthful Bangladeshi's and the figthing Irish deserve to be playing in the Super 8 instead of the Indians.

So whats ahead? The Indian board has called for a review of the World Cup performance on April 6th and 7th, ostensibly to decide the course for the future. We will have to see if the board learns from its mistakes and from the success of the other teams in the competition. Can it display the will itself? Can it begin planning for the future by getting rid of the Dad's army in the Indian team. Can it start picking players for potential rather than reputation. The team that lost to Sri Lanka had four people clearly playing on reputation - Tendulkar the most conspicuous. Can the board show the gumption by getting rid of a player who is a shadow of his former great self and who at age 33 is consistently late on the ball against fast bowling - a quality you hate to see in an international quality batsman.