Last-placed Liechtenstein has lost all of its seven matches, being outscored 26-1. Nadal won earlier Saturday, although for the second match in a row, he needed to shake off a poor opening set that he dropped. Only the five group winners qualify for the World Cup. Rahane and VVS Laxman apparently share some common factors in limited-overs cricket. Was there pressure on you to select more junior players and change the core group. That they all departed with unfinished business, and more than a few complaints, shows that the problem with Indian hockey may be organic in nature. Van Ass took the Dutch team to an Olympic silver medal while Oltmans took his home country’s men’s and women’s teams to the next level. Of the rest, only in six innings his strike-rate had been in the 90s. Mexico clinched one of the three berths from North and Central America and the Caribbean on Friday night, and Costa Rica is close to securing another. Getting a big-name foreign coach and sacking him after a few poor results would prompt others to think twice about coming to India and would be akin to papering over the cracks.