What is the reason for India's defeat in the 20-20 campaign?

Sorry yash, u r completely out of sync in wht i mean to say. Its like u r ok with these people having fun day & night but u wouldnt like them to shed their sweat on the ground practising. Thts the reason we ve only 1 tendulkar & others are just copycats desperately seeking limelight. I m open in my view of supporting australia bcoz i like their professionalism and not being cutie pie to any tom & harry. Players need to feel responsible for their being in the team and their job is to play. They r not small kids who have to be constantly looked after. I feel management had done enough.   

I think its the player's mistake who didnt show the team spirit and the winning attitude on the field. The hunger for victory was never seen throughout the series it just looked as if they were playing the game for the sake of playing as they are bound by the BCCI code of conduct.

And even the blunders made by Dhoni in his decision throughout the series in bowling changes as well as batting order resulted in a defeat for us in all important matches. The only 2 matches we won was against Ireland and Bangladesh this shows the real calibre of our team. And also Dhoni's poor perfromance with bat as well as gloves continues. Instead he should rework on his basics of wicket keeping like a wicket keeper should always collect the ball behind the stumps so that he gets a chance to make the batsman runout easily where a Dhoni alwasy collects the ball in front of the wicket and takes a longer time to hit the bails. So I think instead of blaming the whole team Dhoni is majorly responsible for the India's defeat along with the poor performance of the team as a unit.

More than anything, our team lacked LEADERSHIP completely. MSD seemed very off colour and looked like he didnt know what he was doing. He has lost the sting himself and hence we could not see him coming to terms with his batting!

Even players like Rohit Sharma and Raina got out cheaply where normally their wicket is considered to be a prize wicket!!

Leadership and tactics that is where we lost!

Why make a scapegoat of an organisation who doesnt even charge the players for their Sponsorship or endorsement deals?? I would say that all our players have with their eyes open walked into the itinerary to play their game. Who has forced them?? No one. So lets not make a monkey out of oursleves at all. Agree to the fact that it is our players who are themselves to blame and the fact that our leader lacked the sting completely!

Exactly Dinsh, from the past few good performances, it was looking Dhoni was getting overconfident daily

Mind you guys, if Indians were slogging in IPL so did other players of other countries, so why such soft corner for your dear players. Look at westindies, southafrica, srilankan players, most of them played for their country, then joined the IPL league & continued their way into T20WC. So plz giving benefit of doubt to players is pure biased. If the players are tired or exhausted (well they don’t seem like it, when they are partying hard) they can themselves opt out or inform the management. Whts stopping them. It needs a gutsy Kumble who even knocked out can come on the field & strike the opposition out. I feel management should be more rigorous on these players who are so cozy cushioned by everyone(media, fans). And by the way making a contract to play for your country needs every ounce of patriotism inside to work hard, without thinking abt the result but atleast they should try(like the Irelanders). And obviously this is called professionalism. Its like a job for them and any one who is not doing their job to the best needs to be ousted.

Dhoni's overconfidence....

Whts management got to do with how players play on the field. The players who got selected were based on IPL performance & were to some point promising. But it seems once these guys get a bigger platform & some praise for their performance they start showing overconfident traits, which ultimately leads to their downfall. Their lookout is more on appearance & style factor than performance.

I feel Indian bowlers gave a good performance but the batsmen disappointed everybody with Yuvraj Singh  to Gautam Gambhir. I feel it was the mistake of the players who failed on the crucial time