Is Gary Kirsten right in blaming the players?

A lot of the cricket experts (As per last count, there were about 1.2 billion of them) have deliberated at length about the reasons for India’s ouster from the T20 world cup. Not that I don’t have my own take on this, but I would rather not comment after having looked what has happened. It’s always easy to comment on a hindsight. But what is more important is to look at what happened, what went wrong, with a focus on the future. A world cup debacle is neither the end of world nor is it happening for the first time. We have seen it all, and come through later. So, as such, making a big deal out of this elimination is not justified. What appalls me is the manner in which the coach has lashed out at the team.
By whatever little cricket I have played at a competitive level, I understand that the role of a coach at the junior level is not much of strategizing. It is elementary. Teaching a young kid how to hold the bat, how to play text book strokes, how to grip the ball, and other basic stuff.
There should be some difference in coaching a junior team and an international team. You don’t teach a player forward defence as an international coach. They are supposed to have come with those basic skills. The major work for an international coach should be tuning the mental frame of their minds. If the coach, after the end of a tournament, blames the attitude, fitness and physique of his players, what it essentially means is that he has failed to do his job. I agree that you cannot be like a primary school teacher who holds a stick and smack his wards’ ass to get them straight. But if there is some unacceptable behavior from any of his players, it also becomes his duty to get them corrected. The players themselves also need to respond, I agree.
A coach’s job is no cake walk. That is why so many gifted players, sometimes even more talented than the coach, respect them. The excuse or accusation by the coach is not acceptable especially for the fact that almost the same team is ranked No 2 in the 50-over game. Also, the accusation has fallen on many of the senior players who have been working with Gary for some time now. Doesn’t it show his incapability to straighten them even after so many interactions?
I am not saying make Gary Kirsten the scapegoat for this defeat. All I am saying is that Gary Kirsten, instead of pointing out to so many problems in Indian Cricket, should concentrate on solving a few of those problems. After all, that is what he is being paid for!