text: what are the main reasons of indian lost against sa?   here are the reasons for the one-way traffic:  poor bowling in last few overs. though they kept it tight but, after having them at 209/7, it was too much in the last few overs. what really surprised me is that they let andre nel score few quick runs, well it´s not few for someone like him.  poor team selection. sehwag was fit to play the last game and was even included in the playing xi (11). so, what went wrong so suddenly with him that he couldn´t take any part in the match? he was injured, accepted. but, why did they include wasim jaffer? replacing the most attacking batsman with most defensive one, why? why left out irfan pathan? apart from dravid, he was the only man who played exeptionally well in the practice. scored 34 runs and took 1 wicket for 38 runs in 9 overs. so, that´s not bad at all. and more so, they left him out for such a pacy and bouncy track. he would´ve been really helpful on that kind of track, and morever, he even gives india a extra option of batting.  the setting of the batting order was worst i have ever seen since i born. imagen that if the target was like 270+, what would they have done then? openers: sachin tendulkar, a batsman who plays at normal pace, neither so attacking and nor so defensive. wasim jaffer, making the record of playing the most defensive opener in modern era of cricket after simon katich. he would have been helpful in the middle-order. i think india could´ve replaced sehwag with someone like dhoni. attacking replaces attacking. but, untill chappell dies, dhoni would never come up the order. he is a very fickle minded man. dhoni now would bat up the order only in the 20/20 game, and then he would again visit south africa for 20/20 championship to bat up the order. so, after jaffer it was turn for kaif to come out in the middle to spend few 100 balls. and he did the same, scored 8 off 19 balls in 39 runs stand with sachin. and then dravid. he had to come out in anyway because the start was there. so what he needed to do was to stay there.  bad captaincy. what was the need to bowl full qouta of 10 overs with harbhajan singh? he got thrashed around the park by de villiers in his 1st 5 overs. whereas tendulkar and mongia bowled superbly to restrict them in middle-overs. why didn´t he allow tendulkar to bowl full 10 overs? why didn´t he bowl few more overs with mongia to take the pace off the run-rate? why didn´t they include kumble in place of harbhajan singh. kumble has more flight in his bowling which helps on his kind of tracks. i think dravid has to make such decision rather than letting chappell do everything.  for the moment: the alarm bells are ringing for chances of india winning the world cup, yesterday rang the 1st one. it will need some great performance by india to even draw or win the series, which is looking very bleak. and if they can do this, it will really be a confidence booster for them.  rawal.