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?