MUMBAI, Sept. 27 -- With five wins in five games, India have been on a dream run in the Asia Cup. Abhishek Sharma & Co have put on a batting show while Kuldeep Yadav & Co have spun a web around the opposition line-ups. For a team playing such ruthless cricket, it's quite bizarre to see them struggling with their fielding. Their dominating displays have been marred by a series of dropped catches. In the ongoing tournament, India have dropped as many as 12 catches. During the six-wicket triumph over Pakistan in the Super Fours, India dropped four catches. The trend continued on Wednesday, with Bangladesh's top scorer Saif Hassan being handed four lives (on 40, 65, 66 and 67). After India's victory over Pakistan, reflecting on India's fielding woes, captain Suryakumar Yadav jokingly said, "The fielding coach T Dilip has emailed the boys with butter fingers to appear before him." However, this has not been just about the Asia Cup. It has been the story of the season. In February, India won the Champions Trophy final, also played in Dubai, but dropped four catches. Even during the Test series in England there were many chances that went abegging, with India dropping 23 catches in five games -- the most they have ever dropped in a series, seven more than when they toured Australia in 2018/19. Now that the cricketers' fitness levels have become so much better, shouldn't it automatically translate to better catching? "I will put it down to not enough practice," said R Sridhar, who was India's fielding coach during head coach Ravi Shastri's tenure. "Because I believe, in today's practice, everyone wants to bat, (there are) six to seven nets, they keep batting and then they go to the gym, do their running. Somewhere, the time they devote to fielding is drastically reducing. In practice, nowadays, sometimes they do (fielding) for 30-35 minutes. It is a lack of practice." At the Asia Cup, India's catching efficiency is 67.6%. Among the eight teams, they are only above Hong Kong. "You become a superstar by hitting sixes, not by taking diving catches. You don't get Grade A contracts or million dollar IPL contracts by taking good catches. They need to hit sixes every third ball, and that is what they are practicing," said Sridhar, a BCCI Level 3 qualified coach who served as India's fielding coach across more than 300 international matches from 2014 to 2021....