It was a clinical job!

Sri Lanka showed why they are expected to give Australia a run for their money! A perfect job it was. In my book, Sri Lanka is going to be the Champions in this edition and Sanath Jayasuriya, the man of the series. I am willing to stick my neck out on that! Tom Moody has done wonders for this Sri Lankan side and our loss is Sri Lanka's gain. Tom Moody was not a great player in the class of Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell, Steve Waugh, or Ricky Ponting but he was a very useful contributor to his side in the ODI fixtures. He knew very clearly what his team expected of him and I am sure he didn't need his skipper or the coach to tell him that. I think such players make great coaches. They are unassuming but know their job perfectly well. Like they could visualize their own role in the team, they can help the members of the team they are handling, to define their roles within the overall fabric of the team. That is what a coach has to do and not dictate roles. It is more like guiding your child to choose a career path in as unobtrusive a manner as possible instead of forcing your will against the aptitude and the individual capabilities of the child. It is all about letting the individual flower within the broad scheme of things for the team as a whole. If you weigh against this yardstick the profiles of former Indian players, Mohinder Amarnath stands out as the suitable boy!