India in Sri Lanka - ODI Series (2012)

By the way I had lot of free time yesterday and was hopping various discussion forums and sites, I could see that lot of people said that playing and winning against a team like SL does not count a bit, it seems they can't play abroad as they lost 4-0 in Eng and Aus.

I find it strange, India drew the last series in SA, infact even the earlier tours to ENG (won) and Aus (close contest 2-1)  they were good enough. Now all that is forgotten and only these two series are taken as benchmark ... they forget all the form issues, injuries, mid match injuries, decisions that went against India at crucial junctions, key players missing the entire series, conditions etc ... well I considered all that to be part and parcel of game. Simple , to me nothing counts ... India did not deserve to win because they played badly during that 6-8 months period. 

Then why I say this ? - I find this strange pick and choose yardstick policy to undermine India's achievement

1. They do not count SA tour results, but only latest Eng and Aus 

2. They do not give credit to victory against SL , but consider Rohit's recent failure against them, while forget last year he was averaging higher 50's

3. They consider Rohit's failure against SL, but say Kohli can be judged if and only if he delivers such performance against Eng,Aus and SA ... funny and foolish again.

4. For a change (very strange!) few decisions went in India's favor, and all the people started saying India got lucky, if that is the case where were they when majority of decisions where going against them ( inspite of technology help in snicko's and hotspot), seems like India can get decisions against them coz they don't want DRS ... very foolish that.

5. Opposition key players like Sanga and Kula's injuries are all considered as reason for India's success.

6. Even the opposition's fatigue factor is considered.( while they completely forgot India's schedule to and post world cup leading to those two forgettable tours)

7. When India was No 1 - infact close to 24 months, they were great ... home or abroad. At the end of their reign, they lost to England and lost the rankings immediately, atleast while they were at the top they were supreme. I remember all the guys saying that India played more at home and became No 1. It seems no one is watching what is happening recently, there is not word about it.

8. Age old problem, no matter how other team's bowling gets hammered n number of times, if India in one match performs badly in death overs , suddenly weakest Indian bowling concept comes up.

Maybe highest standards of performance yardsticks apply only to India.

To put the record straight , essence of what I wrote 

to me nothing counts ... India did not deserve to win because they played badly during that 6-8 months period.