Cricket and we the Indians

Well now that we are done with cricket (atleast for now) people can start going about their life bitching about the abysmal performance of our cricketers and how we being a nation of 1+ billion couldn’t congregate a team of plausible players, the future of the sport etc, etc....
Public's anguish is justified to some extent, the team went down without a protest or a single hint of fight against the not so matured, in-experienced team.
The game failed to enthrall viewers, the players displayed total lack of commitment to the cause. At the end of the match Rahul Dravid looked shaken and was virtually in tears(that was a poignant sight and i'm sure many would have felt for him) other players looked distant & detached, don’t know what was going thru their mind i can guess the endorsement deals would've been the top priority.
I fail to understand what is it about this game that drives Indians crazy(including me) may be its in our blood, one of my friend's kid is hardly 3 yrs and his favorite ad is 'Boost is the secret of my energy' and he does that with a batting swing action, now now i live in US Midwest where exposure to this game is less than pragmatic and of all the ads this chotu has seen this seems to fancy him a lot.
Some say its time to move on and look at other sports like soccer, formula1, golf, hockey etc... but few say we are not upto power games and attribute it to our puny&scrawny built (compared to Europeans, middle eastern, Americans of course).
To me it seems that we lack commitment and fire to pursue these sports of course there is little or no help from our government agencies to promote these sports, their theory is prove first and then we may help, but it is disheartening to think we haven’t scored a gold in Olympics where as our neighbors(I meant the Chinese) who are maybe same or less built than ours have made great strides in the field of sports.
Question is, if they can why can't we???? how can we change? what does it take for us to be recognized out of the framework of IT?
I know they are Good questions and so life moves on.