Rahul Dravid

[Pratters]

It's sad Aakash Chopra never got a chance opening in tests. Had he come 4-5 years later, he would have given India at least a few years of good service. He has also written a tour diary of sort of his exploits in Domestic cricket in a cricket season. He is a very good writer and I highly recommend the book.

 

[vcs]

Dravid is finding new and innovative ways of getting out... bowled after hitting the ball off the middle of the bat FFS!

 

[Jono]

That was ridiculous

 

[Pratters]

Dravid is finding new and innovative ways of getting out... bowled after hitting the ball off the middle of the bat FFS!

I have seen him played on once before if I remember correctly.

 

[Teja.]

Think RD should get the NZ and Aus series and GTFO if he doesn't do anything in them.

 

[harsh.ag]

 

[OverratedSanity]

I wanted Dravid to retire after that SA tour too, but in hindsight it sends a shudder up my spine what would have happened in England a few months later if Dravid wasn't there. It was embarassing anyway but without those Dravid runs, it might well have been the single worst shellacking in the history of test cricket.

 

[Furball]

That England series was ****ing magnificent. I'm struggling to think of any other series I've seen where there has been such an enormous gulf in performance between one player and the rest of his team-mates.

Thing is, Dravid actually underperformed in terms of the number of runs he made, he ran out of partners at both Lord's and the Oval in India's first innings and would surely have scored loads more at Trent Bridge had the middle order not collapsed around him.

 

[vic_orthdox]

There was a serenity about his batting as catastrophe was going on around him. The thing it reminded me the most of was Tendulkar in the 1990s, when India were away and he wasn't getting the support that he later did; making hundreds batting in his own little bubble.