Indian cricket fans have one peculiar habit, a trait that I haven't seen in cricket fans from Australia and South Africa but which is definitely quite evident in those from England and Pakistan as well - finding faults with the team and the players irrespective of how they are doing on the field.

I like to term this tendency 'pseudo cricket intellect' in my vocabulary. So after a thrashing at the hands of the ruthless Australians in the Tests, now that we seem to be doing well in the ODIs, I hear strong opinions on the following three topics whenever I see Indian fans discussing cricket.

1. Sachin Tendulkar's selfishness in playing the ODI series in order to get his 100th international century
2. Rotation policy of the team
3. Players skipping practice

Indian electronic media, being the way it is, has been fast to cash in on these sentiments, hosting panel discussions at prime time in which 'experts' of the game give their two cents on these issues from the comfort of their living rooms.

Viewers watching those channels and not being able to make up their minds on what they feel on these topics (I can't blame them. In a country which is going to elections shortly, has stubbornly high inflation and a volatile stock market not to mention power problems and traffic jams, Indian players rotating the batting line-up isn't such a big deal as long as the team is winning) borrow the take of one such 'expert' for water-cooler discussion the next day in the office.

So these 'experts' create pseudo-intellectual cricket fans that in turn fuel demand for more bytes by the former. It is a bit like chicken and the egg problem.

Anyway, coming back to these topics, I personally don't understand what the whole fuss is all about:

1. Sachin's 100th ton: If one looks at the cricket calendar of the Indian team for 2012, it shall be obvious in an instant that they are playing in the sub-continent for the most part of the year. Sachin clearly had the option of going back home after the Test series, turning up for the Asia Cup in March to play on flat tracks and hammer that much awaited hundred.

But Sachin being Sachin decided to take up the challenge in Australia's backyard, a place where he didn't do very well in the recent Test series. A few commentators and many armchair experts are now accusing him of playing under pressure in order to get to that magical three-figure mark and some fans (fickle ones I must say) are buying that. These are the very people who have called for his retirement time and again in the last few years and have had to eat humble pie every single time.

I am sure that had Sachin returned to India after the Test Series, these 'experts' would have accused him of abandoning the team when it was down on morale and had a bunch of inexperienced youngsters who could do with some guidance in Australia. Shameful!

2. Rotation policy: This is really a no-brainer. All the three openers in ODIs - Sachin, Sehwag and Gambhir are 30-plus years old. Will all of them be around for the World Cup in 2015, which shall be played in Australia and New Zealand? Maybe not.

At the same time, the younger batsmen like Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Manoj Tiwary and Rohit Sharma who are the future of the ODI team, the guys who shall be defending the World Cup for us in about three years' time, can do with all the experience they get on Australian pitches. What wrong are MS Dhoni and the team management doing by planning for the future?

A World Cup winning team doesn't get created overnight. It comes with meticulous planning and preparation which Dhoni and company. seem to be doing. But 'experts' seem to disagree with me and scream at this rotation policy as being 'an insult to Tendulkar'. I find that laughable.

3. Players skipping practice: Readers who have given competitive exams would know that taking the last one or two days easy before the paper actually boosts one's performance in it. One can't enhance his knowledge or preparation by a significant amount at the 11th hour. Instead indulging in a distraction (be it music, movie, or just chilling) can actually charge one's batteries and prevent fatigue on D-Day.

It has been a long and tough tour for Team India. I don't see anything wrong if the players decide to skip practice and take their minds off the game. Yes, there are a lot of issues to be addressed especially in the batting department in Test matches, but that shall only happen once the team comes back and there is a performance review. The players are also human beings like all of us and need an outlet. But the Indian fan (brainwashed by 'experts') is very unforgiving of this 'sin'.

In conclusion, I would say just one thing. There is always something romantic about India's tour down under. Sadly the romance in the Test series ended in the fans's heartbreak and shall lead to the team's break-up (at least partly). But we are doing decently in the ODIs. Moreover this may be the last we see of Sachin and Sehwag in Australia. We all should just sit back and enjoy these moments.

As it is there are many things to worry about - the BCCI and its workings, player burnout, IPL controversies, the overhaul of the Test team. Let's not allow self-styled experts giving controversial and scandalous statements on television and in articles to add to these.

Tanuj Khosla can be found on Twitter: @Tanuj_Khosla