0-4 in England
0-4 in Australia
If that was an away scoreline, then here is a look at home record:
2-0 vs Kiwis
2-0 vs WI
Fine, home victories but against lower opposition.
1-2 vs England in India.
Whoops. A series loss at home after 8 years. Shameful record.
Few more records:
Failure to make it to the finals of Asia cup and CB series in Australia.
0-3 loss in England ODIs.
1-2 loss to Pakistan in India.
That was the ODI part.
Failure to reach the World T20 semis. But that happened twice under Gary Kirsten.
Above is the record of Duncan Fletcher in the 2 years of Indian coach and the old man has got an extension of one year owing to the continuity (as per Uncle Srini). Not worthy of a day's extension as a coach after above pathetic record.
He did not develop the game of a single young player abroad or improve the defects of senior players in his tenure. Fine there is a logic that the likes of Sachin, Dravid and Laxman (in Australia and England) do not require any batting advice, but then again somebody needed to go and tell them what was wrong with them.
Another example is of Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag. Under this guy, their game just went on a downward slide and the guy kept quiet. No inputs, no improvement. No sight of improvement of form for this duo.
No out of the box strategy to startle the opposition. During England loss in India and in England, the guy did not have an answer to the spin and seam tactics of England. No way to stop Alistair Cook or KP or Ian Bell or Monty Panesar when they were on a roll in India.
So the only reason he must have had behind this extension is some good ties with Dhoni who is said to have recommended for extension to his step father N Srinivasan. And Srini who can't ignore Dhoni provided an extension to the disastrous coach of India after Greg Chappell.
So now it remains to be seen how deep India plummets in the coming year in all 3 formats of game. Not to stress hard that the planning to retain the World Cup title in Australia shall need to begin sometime this year and again it will be interesting to find out what strategy and plan Fletcher has.
