Butter finger display !! Top order caves in (ugh !! not again)

Indian close in catching has been nothing worth the salt for several decades but the butter finger display at Mumbai took the team to new depths. Slip catching is not the kind of thing where you just plant 2 legs and 2 arms and things will stick. India has not unearthed a real slip specialist after Azhar and one they have left with - Dravid, spills 3 times the amount he actually catches. Andrew Flintoff was coaxed into staying at the crease, even though he was wanting to get back to the cool comforts of the pavillion, not less than 3 times and twice in consecutive balls. Dravid spilled no less than 3; Kumble, Dhoni, Viru and Yuvarj did not want to let their skipper feel guilty and added their own contribution. I think in all 10 catches went down and as many as 3 LBWs were not even given the appeal by the bowlers !!. What an amount of profilgacy - there must be a cap to this idea of endless gifting, which must have broken the most steely heart of any bowler. England should have been allowed no more than 250 maximum, were allowed to drift to 400.
Add the usual failure of top order, you are looking at a familiar story. Viru, Jaffer perished due to gloving bouncing deliveries and SRT chased a nothing delivery. I am beginning to feel that SRT is nearing his end of the career. This particular dismissal is almost making it certain that he may not last till the world cup.
What is impressive is the thought process that has gone into English attack. They have plans for each batsman and they have really honed in on Viru. He has no stroke to offer for that short rising ball other than an ungainly poke and teams which have obeserved this have used this to telling effect. With another pathetic top order cave in, the pressure was back on Dravid and this kind of repeated failing defeats logic, when there is only 5 batsmen to go around.
Dravid was the usual 'wall' and although Yuvaraj played some fluent strokes but almost ran his captain out when Dravid almost was nearing hand shake distance from him and had to go back. How many times Dravid has to resurrect an inning? But again, this is something he got himself into - there was no need to bowl first and on the top of that he dropped sitters thrice.
With 111 runs still for avoiding the follow on, India is starring at defeat in my opinion. They might just about avoid the follow on with the usual lower order grit display but will have to bat on a tricky 4th inning pitch later. All in all, plenty of scope for England to square the series.