kolkata a former india coach on monday blamed flawed selection policy for the downward spiral of recurve archers as they prepared to leave for the asian games in indonesiathe recurve mens team had last won a world cup medal a bronze in 2016 during the last two years the archery association of india aai tried out more than a dozen archers for the mens team with 26yearold atanu das being the constant memberthe former coach said they need to go back to the earlier procedure when there were several round of trials that stretched for daysi think the selection procedure is flawed now theres only olympic round in the selection trial anyone who shoots well in 1216 arrows gets picked so almost in every world cup we have new members with little or experience that shows at a top event like world cup the senior india coach told pti on condition of anonymityrecalling the era under former aai secretary general paresh nath mukherjee he said during the 2010 commonwealth games trials cumulative scores of qualification and olympic rounds were considered archers would slog for threefour days to get pickedwe had a set of archers jayanta talukdar rahul banerjee tarundeep rai and mangal singh champia there was consistency and their experience also paid off its really in a sorry state at the momentthey would do well in the qualification round to ensure a favourable draw now with less experience they are faltering in the ranking rounds and getting a tough opponent in the elimination stagetheres only atanu das who has the experience the rest are good but its about holding your composure at the toplevel which is not that easy he addedit was a golden era for the indian mens recurve team that had won five world cup gold from 2008 to 10 en route to becoming the world number one in september 2010 which it held till june 2011but things went downwards after that four years ago the recurve team returned emptyhanded from the incheon asian games even as the compound section compensated with four medalsthe jakartabound team also has vishwas who was a member of the bronze medal winning mens team in doha 2006 asian gamesthe recurve section however will be bolstered by the addition of mixed pair event as there will be five medals on offerincidentally its the recurve mixed pair event that has given india reasons to rejoice at world cups in recent past bronze in wroclaw 2014 silver medals in wroclaw 2015 and antalya 2016i hope deepika and atanu stand a chance in recurve mixed pair womens team is also strong so we can expect a second there while im keeping my fingers crossed for the individual and mens team event he said