Sacking Duncan Fletcher may be the best thing that would happen to Indian cricket?

As the news go high on Duncan Fletcher getting sacked by BCCI and Andy Flower the favourite to be the next Indian Cricket Team coach, we take a look at the tenure history of Duncan Fletcher.

India’s woes abroad have coincided with his tenure as coach. It is great that India wins at home but Fletcher and his staff have done nothing to prepare the players to play abroad. There is a debate on the impact of coaches in cricket. Some say that the coach is irrelevant and can’t really do much. If that is the case then why have one? A coach in any sport is critical to the success of the team. Joe Dawes has been India’s bowling coach since February 2012 and has not been able to achieve much abroad with a reasonable amount of talent to work with.

Most of the Indian batsmen have been terrible overseas and what has Fletcher done to curb this terrible form? The team does not have a mental conditioning coach, something that is critical when you are facing mental blocks when playing in different conditions. The overall set up is not conducive to creating a winning environment.

After the 0-8 losses against England and Australia the two series abroad have been of just two test matches each. It seems that the attitude is, lets lose quickly abroad, then come back home, win big and all will be forgotten.

India now play the Asia Cup and the World T20 (both in sub-continent conditions) followed by the IPL. If India does well in the two tournaments preceding the IPL all will be forgotten till they go back to England this summer. Deep thought and analysis are required to figure out a solution to this problem. A starting point would be to show Duncan Fletcher and team the door.

However, with just a year remaining in the World Cup, which will again played abroad in Australia and New Zealand, the decision of sacking Fletcher might be risky, but the chances of the team getting benefit by the same is more.