I am losing patience with Dav Whatmore. Maybe, his tactics are not working or the players are not listening to his advices anymore. In either case, maybe, just maybe his time is running out. To top it all, I can't believe he used words such as "whitewash", " favorites" prior to the series. Rule number one in sports is to respect your opponents and not give them added inspiration. Its on thing to be world beaters and having enough confidence to utter such words, when you know you can back it up, a la Australia, and quite another thing for a team like ours to have their coach fanning words like this and creating a false sense of security, or complacency. Counter productive and the results show it. I thought he was more of a master motivator than a tactician. I don't see any progress in our mental strength since he has taken over. Collectively, we have improved ( despite this result ) but mentally, we are still back there.
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