Can Dravid the batsman cope with captaincy?
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That was a column by Travis Basevi and George Binoy in cricinfo.com\ngo read from there for expert opinions...
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VRV Singh cannot. He has to emerge as a good bowler. Mahender Singh Dhoni is a Punjabi as is known by his name
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Yes, Rahul Dravid can be a wicket keeper, if required. But why ??\nDhoni is doing the job as per teams requirement. Rahul is a top class batsman, let him concentrate on his batting and captaincy if required he will take charge of wicketkeeping in absence of Dhoni.\n\nCombination of Indian team will look like be balanced if we play with 5 batsman,4 bowlers and 2 all rounders(1 wicketkeeper batsman and other bowler- batsman) \n\nDinesh Karthik is in form nowdays, but very difficult to get a birth in Indian team, because we have in form Dhoni and substitute wicket keeper Rahul already in the team.
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yes Mr Dravid is failure till now.And he does not have good leadership qualities.
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From my point of view, Rahul Dravid's wicket will be most important for India. He is THE WALL OF INDIAN DEFENCE.\nYuvraj Singh would also be a key player down in the middle order. It will be too much to expect some fast centuries from Dhoni.\n\nFrom Pak side, Inzamam & Mohd. Yusuf (Yusuf Yohana) will hold the key.\nShoaib Akhtar & Shahid Afridi are also in form.
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A CAPTAIN SHOULD BE AGGRESIVE.\nBUT \nSHOULD NOT BE ABUSIVE.\nHE LOST THE RESPECT FROM QUITE A NUMBER OF FANS WHO LOVED LARA BEYOND NATIONALITY.\nA REPUTED CRICKETER NEED NOT BEHAVE LIKE THAT.
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You should get first prize in criticizing some one like Dravid who is so humble. He has given his entire life for Indian Cricket.No one is obsessed with him. Cricket lovers adore him.
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RESPONSIBILITY HAS TO GO ALONG WITH ACCOUTABILITY.\n\nHOW?\n\nDRAVID be removed from CAPTAINCY and ODI-Why?\n\nThe worst captain- \ncould not control SA from 6 wicket down for 76; finally SA made 275. \nAny 18yrs child can do better job.\n\nHe made 63 in 103 balls and it is equvalent of 184 in 50 overs. This means he played for his retaintion in the team but not for win of INDIA. \nHE SCORED +50 for 63 but SCORED (NEGETIVE) -100 for playing TEST Match in ODI. \n\nThe net score of dravid is (negative)-50. This means he can play TEST but he shall be removed from ODI side of INDIA.\n\nShri DHONI be made CAPTAIN- Why?\n\n\nHe scored 55 in 48 balls, this is equivalent to 344 runs in 50 overs. Therefore he played for win of INDIA. HE GOT 50 FOR SCORING 55, and 100 FOR PLAYING FOR WIN OF INDIA and not mere for his retaintion in the team.\n\nTHEREFORE DHONI WITH 150 MARKS OUT OF 100 WILL THE CAPTAIN IN THE NEXT ODI\n\nShri DRAVID WITH (-)50 SCORE SHALL BE DROPPED FROM ODI AND RESERVED FOR TEST ONLY.\n\n\nThis is one example.\n\nWhat others?\n\npay proportion to performance\n\nif team win alright, if not remove 2 bat'mn, 2 blrs, 1 all rounder, keeper (if did badly).\n\nif could not win series;\nremove captain, coach, selectors, BCCI, \nMake a fresh selection of the team.\n\nIT WILL CERTAINLY WORK.
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not all the great and legend players are good captains. \n\nDravid ofcourse he is the spine for all the indian victories from last decade but i dont think he is the right person.\n\nsee what is happening, i am not criticising because it lost the series with WI , but  to become a good team , they have to win in alien places. \n\nand until now dravid won in india , pakisthan  even pakisthan is sub continent and similar pitches like home. its not enough.they have to win overseas series convinsingly.\n\nuntil that we cant deciede wether he is right or wrong. may be time will give right answere
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yes dravid is a good player\nand he has handled the captainship very well after sourav...\n\ni think he sould remain the captain of india........
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Dravid's style\nBeginning with the reputation of being a defensive batsman who should be confined to Test cricket, Rahul Dravid has defied early perceptions to become the mainstay of the Indian batting line-up in ODIs as well as in Tests. His nickname of 'The Wall' in Reebok advertisements was treated by ODI fans as a derisory comment about his inability to rotate strike as he tended to hold up one end playing his front foot defence, neither scoring runs nor getting out. The nickname has now become a tribute to his consistency. Dravid has scored 22 centuries in Test cricket at an average of 57.65, including 5 double centuries, whilst in one-dayers he has an average of 40.16 at a strike rate of 70. He is one of the few Indians who average more at away matches than at home, averaging about 10 more runs a match abroad than on Indian pitches. As of 28 October, 2005, Dravid's average in overseas Tests stood at 63.20 as against his overall Test average of 57.59, and his average for away ODI stands at 42.95 as against overall ODI average of 40.42. In matches India has won, Rahul Dravid averages 79.51 and 51.54 in Tests and ODI respectively.\n\nDravid's sole Test wicket was that of Ridley Jacobs in the fourth Test against the West Indies during the 2001-2002 series. While he has no pretensions to being a bowler, Dravid often kept wickets for India in ODIs, an 'experiment' that continued for several seasons. He has since delegated the wicket-keeping gloves, first to Parthiv Patel and more recently to Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Dravid is now purely a batsman, one whose Test average has soared to 67.56 in matches played since 1 January, 2000.\n\nDravid was involved in two of the largest parnerships in ODIs: a 318-run partnership with Sourav Ganguly, the first pair to combine for a 300-run partnership, and then a 331-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar, which is the present world record. He also holds the record for the greatest number of innings since debut before being dismissed for a duck. His highest scores in ODI's and Tests are 153 and 270 respectively. Uniquely, each of his five double centuries in Tests was a higher score than his previous double century (200, 217, 222, 233, 270).\n\n \nRahul Dravid's career performance graph.Schooled at St. Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore, and college in St. Joseph's College Of Commerce. He was coached by Keki Tarapore, Dravid has played county cricket for Kent and Scotland. He also led Karnataka to the Ranji Trophy, scoring a double century in the process in the final. He made his Test debut against England at Lords in the 2nd Test match of India's Test tour of England in 1996, and his ODI debut against Sri Lanka at Singapore in the Singer Cup tournament in the same year. He was named one of the Wisden cricketers of the year 2000.\n\nIn 2004, Dravid was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. On 7 September, 2004, he was awarded the inaugural Player of the year award and the Test player of the year by the International Cricket Council, ICC (associated image below). Dravid's batting average of 95.46 in the past year has made him the only Indian to be in the Test team of the year. On 18th March, 2006, Dravid played his 100th Test against England in Mumbai.\n\nIn 2005, a biography of Rahul Dravid written by Devendra Prabhudesai was published, 'The Nice Guy Who Finished First'.\n\nIn the 2005 ICC Awards he was the only Indian to be named to the World one-day XI.\n\nDravid was nicknamed 'Jammy' by schoolmates because his father worked for Kissan, famous for its jams and preserves.\n\nIn 2006, it was announced that he would remain captain of the Indian team up to the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies.\n\n\nPersonal Records\n\nTests\nDravid has the 2nd highest Test batting average among those who have scored over 8,000 Test runs. (30 March 2006) \nLongest streak of consecutive Tests since debut (94) \nGreatest number of in
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personally.....i aint dat impressed with VRV.....he lacks variation and becomes very predictable....i dunno how our captain and coach take on him....plus we'r more reli'in' on spin as the nature of the pitch was in the match...surely wud hv missed bhajji...pro'bly he'll improve if given more chances and exposure!
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NO QUESTION ABOUT CAPTAINSHIP TILL WC'07.\n\nDRAVID WILL REMAIN AS CAPTAIN.\n\nIF NEEDED, AFTER WC, KUMBLE WILL BE HONOURED AS A CAPTAIN BEFORE HIS RETIREMENT.\n\nSORRY...GANGULY FANS.
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How can you say that Dravid is a soft man when his performance as a batsman has been outstanding for the last 3-4 years ! I think he is under a lot of additional pressure from the Coach which he is finding very difficult to handle.
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He can be given another chance to be among the players but shouldn't be the captain as Dravid is the smartest and luckiest captain.
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2 MEN ENOUGH.\nDHONI AS MAIN WK.\nDINESH KARTHIK AS RESERVE.\nIN CASE OF EMERGENCY, DRAVID WILL MANAGE.
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I never try to put people down but you have forced me to do so. How can you ask a moronic question like this? This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Dravid is one of the most respectable cricketers around and he is a good captain.\n\nAre you still sulking about Ganguly's omission. Are you jealous that Dravid may achieve a better win/loss record that Ganguly? Ganguly had his glorious time, and it's not good to stretch it beyond than that. It would have only resulted in humiliation.