“I lose.”
Posted on October 26th, 2006 by Vijay Krishna Narayanan
The only thing Rahul Dravid did not do today when India took to the field was to walk up to the umpires and say, “I’m handing the Windies a walkover.” Dravid seems to be the timidest (or is it, the most timid?) captain in recent memory. Not that captains can wave their hands and watch the wickets tumble, but our man is the least inspiring — one look at his sorry face, and you know India are going down.
I’m no fan of Sourav Ganguly, but he used to be a bit more optimistic, and not afraid to experiment. Dravid looks like he is always rehearsing his post-match speech — trying to find the most acceptable excuse.
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Most appropriate description. Infact, he should stop saying that ‘boys are doing well’. TIme has come to look for alternatives. The most pathetic part of his captaincy yesterday was his last over gift to windies through Agarkar. When are we going to get rid of Agarkar.
What bloddy response. It always runs like this : “I think in the end we were short by 25-30 runs” Believe me, this is what he said at the end y/day also. Though The Hindu (for reasons known only to its Editor) did’nt carry this, The NI Exp did. I wish he comes out with something different at some time in future. Our fellows are too much pampered & the media has to take a major part of the blame. For lack of news otherwise, they keep giving huge coverage for these guys even for their doing their daily chores like visiting toilets, of course 5 star at it. On top of this, our Team carries with it an equal number of support staff who are unfortunately helping them to achieve only wrong results. During the next 2 years we should only play Bangladesh, Kenya, Zimbabwe et all. Who knows we may lose to any or all of them.
Yeah dravid seems to be unlike Ganguly taking a bit passive approach in the field. He seems to remind me of Azhar in the 90’s.
btw a nice blog
You got it spot on, VK. Dravid seems to be very very timid. We know he is a hardworking cricketer who puts country before self, but then as a skipper he needs to be more assertive and an inspiration for the team; which he has failed to be, so far at least.
This was evident even during the test series in WI where we lost an opportunity to nail the Windies after getting nine of their second innings wickets in the second test. I felt I was more anxious and tensed, watching the match on TV than Dravid was on the field.
The urge to go for the kill seems to have gone out of the Indian Dressing room along with Sourav Ganguly. Ganguly, however unsuccessful he has been in recent times, was an inspirational captain, who could very easily raise the sagging spirits of the team.
Two things are unmatchable - Ganguly’s passion for the game and Dravid’s flair for speaking at Press Conferences.
I think it’s a bit unfair on our part to call dravid timid. or the timidest. Dravid has been like this throughout his career, a guy with a calm look who does not vividly express his emotions on the field. It is only natural that he is like that as a captain. one cant change his natural self. but yes, he has to work on the choice of words in the post match conference, btw i dont see any reason for the post match conferences, we cricket viewers know what went wrong and what didnt. He can very well talk about his jammies and insurance companies, that might be of some use.
“I lose.”…
The only thing Rahul Dravid did not do today when India took to the field was to walk up to the umpires and say, …