PR,
I think the points of yourself and thiru anna match ! Thiru anna says no one can win a WC singlehandedly and the entire team should contribute.
I still believe that the team we had in 83 is lot better than the one that we had in 96 and 03. As you said, Kapil was a great motivator and he lead from the front which made the entire team perform well in that series (if not with one-man army kind of stuffs, but with everyone playing well in bits and pieces)