India, July 3 -- Why has Team India all of a sudden started looking like a team that would lose? Who would have thought that the back-to-back world champions would lose both their T20Is in Ireland? Although they batted better in the abandoned game against England in the first T20I at Chester-le-Street on Wednesday, it was far from a perfect performance.

The same team, not long ago, was scoring 250-plus scores at will. At the T20 World Cup in February and March earlier this year in India and Sri Lanka, in the space of four matches, they scored three 250-plus scores, never done before in the history of the shortest format at the highest level. And they were all done in important matches: against Zimbabwe (Super 8s), England (semifinals) an...