A photograph of Virender Sehwag covering his face with his left hand while his teammates Sachin Tendulkar, skipper Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble looking stunned after India lost to Sri Lanka by 69 runs to be out of the tournament, always comes to mind while recalling India's disastrous 2007 World Cup.

However, the first blow was inflicted by then minnows Bangladesh when they stunned India in their opening match at Trinidad by five wickets. India did manage to bounce back in the strongest possible manner when they hammered Bermuda by 257 runs to win their second match two days later. But in the must-win contest against Sri Lanka, it all went awry. India managed to restrict Sri Lanka to 254 for six but Muttiah Muralitharan (3-41), Chaminda Vaas (2-39) were too good on the day.