4 Lessons that the current Indian team can learn from the Indian team of 2000's

#3 Respecting the conditions

Sachin acknowledging the crowd

T-20 cricket is bread and butter for a lot of players in the modern day Indian Test team which has resulted in inflated egos for most of the batsmen. In T-20 cricket, wickets are flat and batsmen can attack bowlers from the word go, but in Test cricket, especially in overseas conditions, batting is difficult. One has to be patient and give bowlers due respect.

After getting out on a few occasions while playing the cover drive, Sachin Tendulkar once dropped offside play from his game during a Test match in Sydney, which resulted in a magnificent knock of 241 not out. Such was the discipline with which those greats played.