Can India sort out a middling middle order?

Iyer, Rahul, Pant and Dube had mediocre returns in India’s series defeat to Sri Lanka, a reminder of the team’s middle order problems in ODIs

New Delhi: Seldom in India’s sporting landscape do its cricketers escape the gaze of sharp scrutiny for their performances. But with the Olympics in full swing in Paris when India were playing in Sri Lanka in Gautam Gambhir’s first assignment as head coach, the attention for once was away from the cricketers.

Shreyas Iyer was one of several India batters to have a below-par series against Sri Lanka. (AFP)

It’s just as well because the ODI series in Sri Lanka didn’t make for pleasant viewing from India’s perspective. The batters were in for a rough time, undone