Its not economy alone, its also brains, foresight, attitude and willingness to be the point of difference. It applies across several sports, not cricket alone. There is a massive change and higher accountability- check coaching in several sports across the SAI centres, the results you are seeing vis-a-vis Asian games where we breached the 100 medal barrier and also the last two commonwealth games in which we performed better than a much more traditional sporting powerhouse like Canada. There are several disciplines in which our atheletes are shining.
The risk taking ability is also enhanced in india, several examples of coaches taking a punt on a youngster and it coming off with the right guidance and nurturing.
coming back to cricket, contrary to what David lloyd says, and i agree that the system is in place but i feel India is going to face a massive cricketing recession very soon.
Ash, VK, shami, che pu, Jinks, Ishant, Jadeja, KL will all be leaving in one massive purge. I do not think we have replacements of even half their calibre.
Our pace bowling will be the worst hit. I only hope i am wrong in this but the gadzillion guzzling BCCI cement heads are only interested in who-the-fridge playing what-the-truck IPL games and the moolah generated from this. There does not appear to be any successin planning, long term vision. Hence, what i mentioned for other sports-which is bound to take off and we are bound to be more successful come the next olympix, Asiad, commonwealth, world championships , is severely lacking in indian cricket. Throw in our pathetic quality of pitches, i for one feel we are going nowhere for next few years till a major course correction happens.
