yeh bilkul wong dis hai dravid ne 11 saal diye hai is cricket ko hum nahi chahate ki woh retire hojaye dravid ur a fighter plz come back jab virender sehwag ko hazaro chance de sakte hai to why not rahul dravid jise india ke liye kitna kuch kiya.miss u rahul plz come back ek app hi ho jisne team ki halat dekhte huye kitne majbooti se apne app ko adjest kiya. nisha
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dravid is the best ind batsman classy test captain and most successful odi captain Odi record for ind captains Names Matches Won Lost Drawn/TiedWon% SR Tendulkar 73 23 43 6/1 31.51% SC Ganguly 146 76 65 5 52.05% R Dravid 79 42 33 4 56.00
Test record of ind last 3 capains. Names Matches Won Lost Drawn win loss raito
Tendulk 25 4 9 12 0.44 Ganguly 49 29 13 15 1.62 Dravid 25 8 6 11 1.33 he led Team India very well on the England tour as well. Didn't we win the Test series on the English soil under him after two decades? Can there be a better proof of his leadership qualities? http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2007/sep/17borde.htm?zcc=rl
Sunny Speaks
Dravid's leadership innovative, top-class India vs England: Third Test August 17, 2007
Leaving the rough road What price the Indian captaincy, indeed? Is it worth being http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Sep202007/sportscene2007091926203.asp
Show of emotion is not aggression: Dravid http://cricket.indiatimes.com/Show_of_emotion_is_not_aggression_Dravid/articleshow/2384672.cms
Sanjay Manjrekar: Dravid should reconsider September 14, 2007 Downlohttp://content-ind.cricinfo.com/talk/content/multimedia/310952.html?view=transcriptad (1895k) | Listen (10:46)
RE:RE:dravid is best batsman/classy test captain / most successful odi captain
by Suman Bhat on Sep 20, 2007 09:29 AM
South African cricket fraternity shocked over Dravid%u2019s decision to step down http://www.midday.com/sports/international/2007/september/164100.htm
Haresh Pandya http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2007/sep/16haresh.htm Nobody in bcci or ind media or ex cricketers has not guts to speak Anjali Doshi, Sujay Gupta http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtvcricket/showstory.aspx?id=SPOEN20070026554 Tuesday, September 18, 2007 (Mumbai) The mystery of Rahul Dravid's resignation as captain of Indian cricket team remains unsolved
Dravid's decision: Why not rather than why TNN / Bobilli Vijay Kumar
Rahul Dravid decided http://publication.samachar.com/pub_article.php?id=262666 Reined in, skipper wants to break free
Dravid has become scapegoat for poor attitude from Indian Board ,media & people. The problem with cricket fans is , we don't want to accept facts about our team strenths and try to look at wrong reasons for the failure. We believe in heroism and expect captain to do wonder with bunch of average cricketers and few good one too . A simple fact if we look at take out Sachin, Saurav & Dravid's contribution. Have we won anything? That shows the reality that there is no second string. So we expect to fail more times than win. Until that weak link is addressed there will not be any improvement in the team india performance. Today it is Dravid and tomorrow it would be Dhoni in scapegoat seat. THe forum will be same . the cursing will be same. Just Dravid will be replaced by Dhoni. Let us think beyond captain.FIrst we need good team then captain can do something
Dravid being a keen observer of the game was absolutely correct when he made made those remarks abut Indian bowling. The proof was there to see when we could not get Englishmen out after a day and 1 session. Apart from this we have always seen the Indian loosing early wickets and Dravid had to come time and again to save the situation, not once or twice but on numerous occasion. One has to go back and see how Zaheer khan has failed to perform in the early stages of Dravid's Captaincy particularly the first time when we were in the finals at Srilanka after Dravid took over and also in the mnatch against Australia at Kolkata. Both we should have won comfortably. There are several instances like this. Those who have seen the media controlled by a particular section always vouchng for Sourab did everything( even they spent i hour prime time for Sourab on the previuos day of Dhoni's selection)to disturb Dravid , aworld class player which Sourab is not. Atleast the Chappell realised that because he has nothing to do with politics. He was the one along with Dravid to suggest Dhoni's name for Future Captaincy. How true things have come?
"famous Test victory in England" Could someone please mention any contribution of smart, aggressive and positive captaincy in the same? I don't think anyone could say anything about it, except murmuring.
Leave it, the smart captaincy and the smart Coaching's extra-bonanza already has sparkled to make the 'Best Ever' show of India in world cup. Everyone was going hard over him because of lots of reasons and those reasons were enough to make others loosing faith in his style of captaincy as in this period, we might have got any victory then at least captaincy was not the one to get credits.
It was horrible to see that how one could spoil a must get victory for getting only 25-30 runs more. Neither any justification was at that time , when He called Sachin back from 194, nor this time. The nation can't bear these kind of mysterious decisions and if the same is some kind of class, then please spare us from the same. God has shown grace to us by kicking out Chappel and if Dravid was continued then he was the next. Better he didn't made us loose a great batsman from the team by choosing to step down.
While talking about the environment of Dressing Room, someone is forgetting that Cricket doesn't get played inside Board Meeting rooms or in dressing rooms and the environment over the field matters most. And for the same Dravid was contributing well, by insanely insisting over the name of Sehwag, so that a friend could get some bucks.
RE:RE:Very Unfortunate
by atma prakash on Sep 19, 2007 05:15 PM
I think it is a good decision because we have to look forward for the future, and because the our trio are in thair last atage so to keep place in the team thay have to perform good.
RE:Very Unfortunate
by ashutosh bahuguna on Sep 19, 2007 05:15 PM
It only shows the politics in cricket.
To have their own man BCCI has opted out for Dravid.
May be they were not knowing that Sachin may refuse or the demands of Sachin were much more.
Dhoni is a scapegoat and in all probabilty will loose his place in team as there is no one in the BCCI from that region to support him.
Ganguly is considered as the successful captain as there was Bengal superemo in the command of BCCI followed by the media to hype his achievemnt. Some media commentators from the day one Dravid took the charge of Captain were behind him.
Dravid has two overseas series victory and test victory not only in SouthAfrica but the first test won on the Pakistani soil was under his captaincy.
May be he would have prolonged if there would have been support for him from BCCI and media.
If the present trend continues in BCCI, you can see the future of Indian Cricket in terms of Hockey where also this thing is happening for last few years.
One should salute the remarkable achievemnts attained during his captaincy.
One must remember
It was also not the first time India was out of the world cup in the first leg. You can look for the results in 1975 and 1979 . the team then was full of the playes who today holds some good positions and give authoratative comments on ODI.
