Yes, I think Indians have to face the truth. We excused our team last season because we thought that they just had a bad year. Our start to this year, which we hoped to be brilliant, has shown that India is not as strong a team as we think it is. If a team consistently does not perform, we cannot say they are going through a bad patch. The team has improved quite a bit under John Wright, but they still have a distance to go.
Kudos to Pakistan for building on their fightback in this series. They have successfully avenged their home loss last year, in my eyes. Now let's see how these two teams face up to the future. What is heartening for world cricket is that there are a bunch of teams who are very close together in talent. These include India, England, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and New Zealand. These teams are capable of upsetting each other any day, which will make cricket competitive. It will also make cricket interesting because there is not a huge gap, like the Australia-ROW divide.