Perhaps he has come to conclusions after these two games that the local league players need to get a lot fitter to be able to compete in the world cup, it is a continuous assessment and you need to adopt and change as you go along.
What's baffling is, during the last WC he clearly said the players needed better physical training. They had to prepare to be able to run much more than they used to do. and it was successful The players could actually run for 90 minutes without getting tired.
Why didn't the IPL coaches capitalize on that afterwards, continuing to make all the players run more?
Even ahead of the AC and the WCQ games, CQ himself said many times, we should prepare to face Asian teams. For the WC we can prepare to face European/South American teams. Why? If he had prepared TM to face European teams with better physical training, the players would automatically be ready for all Asian teams and not the least, they'd be ready now!
It's like, we have a problem. We know we have it. We fix the problem. We continue to create the same problem again. Isn't that what is called "Mazokhizm"?!