Posts Tagged ‘ Rahul Dravid ’

Time to stay calm and look for solutions

January 15, 2012

The heart bleeds after the Indian cricket team has been mauled for the seventh successive time in an overseas Test cricket but the mind must stay calm and analyse the slide that has hurt, upset, disappointed and angered us. It is only a sport and we have to hope that Indian cricket will come out of the morass that it finds itself in at the moment.

Yes, India’s woeful showing in overseas Tests needs to be addressed but let us not incite passion in doing so. It is critical that we remain collected as we sit down to find solutions to some problems that the Indian team is so obviously facing now. It is important not to become a part of the cacophony that follows each such defeat.

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Taking Indian hockey stars on a ride

March 12, 2010

The Indian team at the start of one of its FIH World Cup matches

One of the spin-offs in a career in which writing and commenting on cricket seems to have taken precedence – despite having been to Olympic Games, Asian Games, SAF Games and numerous other non cricket sporting events – is that I have not been in touch with a whole generation of Indian hockey players.

A quirk of fate offered me a chance to make some headway in that direction when I got to spend some quality time with some players last week. In fact, I got to chat up with a couple of them from the Indian squad that took the field in the Hero Honda FIH World Cup on a 15-minute drive and we were able to exchange notes on a number of contemporary issues facing Indian hockey.

One of the pet peeves of the contemporary player is that their predecessors keep insisting that they do not work as hard as they did in their time. “I believe that if we had played in their era, we could have played three matches in a day. Such was the pace at which hockey was played then,” one of the players told me.

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Dravid unlikely to be next comeback-via-IPL story

July 8, 2009

There have many stirring tales of comebacks to one-day international and even Test squads scripted in the DLF Indian Premier League. The names of Shane Watson, Jacques Kallis and Ashish Nehra spring to mind. And, after he was named among the 30 probables for the Indian team to play in the ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa, many seem inclined to believed that Rahul Dravid has added himself to that list

It has been fascinating to observe the reactions in the 24 hours since Dravid was named in that list. I reckon Dravid would not be on that flight to South Africa when Team India heads there in its quest to win the ICC Champions Trophy. This is a title that India has not won outright, having shared it with Sri Lanka in 2002. Read more »

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