The defeat of the Indian cricket team in the third test against Pakistan at Bangalore is one of the strage occurances in sport and life. What causes a mindset that makes a perfectly capable team capitulate to an ordinary opposition ? Why do stupid decisions get made by brilliant men ? And it was a stupid decision to defend against spin bowling on a 5th day track with six close fielders.
We will never know the answer, and analysis after the event is always easy (or extremely difficult, depending on the honesty of the analyst). Was the team defensive due to confidence in their defensive skills, or lack of confidence in offensive skill ? When the team is offensive, is it due to confidence in offensive skills, or lack of confidence in defensive skill ?
Maybe this defeat was a result of overconfidence ? Hey, we can not lose, we are so good we can do nothing for a whole day. We have mastery of the knife, so we will bring it to the gunfight.
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