You sense, like with Dravid, that there is no plan for a coach or a Test captain either. Dhoni has now been captain for a Twenty20 World Cup and for seven games against Australia. That is not a large number but I am struggling to understand how his performance in another couple of one-day games will allow anyone to make a better assessment of him as a Test captain. I suspect the decision on the Test captain has already been taken, certainly I hope it has, but keeping it secret helps no one.

Holding back information is a very poor way of showing power. I do hope though that we do not have a situation where players are interchanging roles all the time. Players need to know who the leader is.

So too with the coach where the story is starting to wear a bit thin now. We are stumbling along, taking one short term decision after another and finding justification for doing so. Either we say we don’t need a coach and that we will accept the results as they come. Or we say we want a coach, the best in the circumstances, and we will try our utmost to find that person.

At the moment we are dragging our heels and suggesting that we are not really bothered either way. Do you, like me, hope that is not true but secretly believe it is?