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Feeble to formidable

India's fielders can today probably save at least 50 runs more per innings as opposed to our teams of the past

Photo: PTI
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Photo: PTI

Aakar Patel
I was watching bits of the match that India is playing against Bangladesh in Indore. At some point I switched off because it was too boring. That is to say, India was dominating totally as has been our team’s wont in the recent past. There was a statistic on the screen that said that we had won something like our last dozen or so series at home, which was a record.

But I am not referring merely to our capacity while we play on the dirt tracks in India (though on recent evidence it appears that this is changing and our