Unlike football managers, India's cricket selectors don't have to stand on the touchline and absorb all that the crowd thinks of them. Perhaps if they did, you wouldn't be surprised to hear chants of ‘You don't know what you're doing’ cascading down from the stands at a stadium. 

You need not spend long wandering about freely and often far afield around the country to know that nearly every Indian fan thinks he or she would do a better job of selecting squads than those presently tasked with doing it. It is a role that looks easy from the outside — preoccupied often, debating which quicks should go to England and which spinners merit a shot in West Indies. But what’s it really like to make, shape and break careers?