Ravi Shastri the new director of cricketing affairs or captain MS Dhoni, who Shastri likes to believe is the leader? Or is it coach Duncan Fletcher, who Dhoni claims is in charge?
Or is it all three of them?
After Ravi Shastri's appointment a week ago following India's poor performance in India along with those of assistant coaches Sanjay Bangar, Bharat Arun (fielding coach) and R Sridhar (fielding coach), Indian cricket board (BCCI) secretary Sanjay Patel had claimed that the team was Shastri's "baby".
A board official has told TOI, "You can say that Shastri is the captain, while Fletcher is the vice-captain."
However, the logic of this new structure sounded fuzzy when, days after Ravi Shastri said in an interview to Times Now that Dhoni was in charge, the skipper himself asserted before the first ODI in Bristol that coach Fletcher was still the 'boss' and would remain as coach till the 2015 World Cup.
It's also unclear if Shastri himself will stay on till the World Cup.
With confusion reigning and the protagonists speaking in different voices, it was left to an embarrassed BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel to clear the air, saying Dhoni's comments were his "personal opinion".
On Monday, a top board official told TOI, "What he (Dhoni) has said seems to be his own perception. He may not have understood our brief properly, or he may have put it in different words. Our stand is very clear. In this situation, Shastri is the boss to whom everyone reports. Fletcher may look after the day-to-day affairs of the team, but it is Shastri who will give a direction to the side and oversee everything.
"After the tour, Shastri's report will be the most critical document for us. If he observes that Fletcher isn't up to the mark, it won't be far-fetched to say we will sack him. The same goes for Dhoni. Now if Shastri is going to evaluate Fletcher's performance, then who is the boss?"
The source added: "It seems Dhoni feels Shastri will be some sort of administrative manager. That's not the case."
Shastri, according to the board, is on a 'fact-finding' mission to investigate what went wrong with India in the Tests against England.
In the press conference on Sunday, Dhoni had also talked about the 'unfair' removal of the support staff. "It's a bit tough on Trevor and Joe, especially when fielders drop catches and the fielding coach has to miss the series," he had said. The BCCI official said: "We agree it is a harsh decision, but then hard decisions need to be taken at times. How can you not question the role of the fielding coach if a young team drops that many catches? We are not here to do charity."
Has Dhoni, who is himself under scrutiny for poor leadership outside the subcontinent, ruffled too many feathers in the BCCI for his own good?
Clearly, the skipper and the BCCI are not on the same page anymore. To add to this, there seems to be no clarity on who is calling the shots in the India camp.
Going into an important ODI series, with the World Cup not too far away, India bear an unsettled look.
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