As Rahul Dravid bids see you to Staff Republic of India, the legend stated that throughout his tenure as head lecturer, he abhorred cutting and converting the aspect remaining and at all times attempted to be a foil for skipper Rohit Sharma in order that he may just devise his personal successful methods.
Dravid’s training stint got here to an finish with Republic of India successful the T20 International Cup in Barbados endmost age, defeating South Africa and bringing house the trophy for the second one day nearest 2007.
“I’m someone who actually likes continuity and don’t like to chop and change too many things because I believe that creates a lot of instability and doesn’t create very good environment,” stated Dravid in a video posted through BCCI on Saturday.
“I feel that I am a part of the team whose responsibility is to create the right professional, safe, secure environment that doesn’t really have a fear of failure as such but is challenging enough to push people. That has always been my endeavour.” Dravid stated that the length when the gamers have been popping out of the COVID-19 pandemic was once a tricky one for him as he had simply taken over as lecturer and “never envisaged” that he must paintings with part a quantity captains.
“Some of the issues that we in reality needed to top, particularly within the early a part of my training tenure right here with Republic of India. We have been on the back-end of the Covid restrictions. “We in reality needed to top their workloads via the entire 3 other codecs. There have been a couple of accidents and it resulted in me running with one thing like 5-6 captains within the first 8-10 months of me being right here.
“It was definitely something that I hadn’t envisaged, or not something that I thought about, but it just sort of organically happened.” Underneath Dravid’s tutelage, Republic of India thrashed England within the five-match Check order at house and the staff additionally reached the 2023 ODI International Cup ultimate.
Moment Covid put a dozen of restrictions on gamers they usually just about lived out of a ‘bubble case’ all the time, the pandemic additionally had its up aspect as a dozen of kids were given a anticipation to be part of the Republic of India staff state.
“The other thing that happened, which was very nice to see is, because we played so much of cricket after Covid and we had to cram in a lot of series, it meant that we had to almost, at times, have two teams playing at the same time in different parts of the world.
“Over the last 2-1/2 years, especially in white-ball cricket and lately towards the back-end (of my career) even in red-ball cricket, we were able to give a lot of youngsters a lot of opportunities, bring a lot of people into the side.” “Some of them developed and stayed on in the side a little bit longer, but some of them, they were there because at that point of time maybe some of the seniors were resting.” Dravid’s courting with Indian stalwarts like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli dates again to the day when he was once on the fag finish of his cricketing profession life the 2 have been discovering their ft in global cricket.
“I’ve really enjoyed working with Rohit, someone I knew as a young boy. Just to see him grow as a person and grow as a leader in Indian cricket, what someone like him has been able to contribute to the team over the last 10-12 years, both as a player and now as a leader, has been a real tribute to him and the effort that he’s put in.
“I’ve really enjoyed getting to him know as a person as well and enjoyed seeing his commitment and his care for the team; to just try and get the environment right where everyone feels safe and secure and enjoys themselves. It’s something that I’ll miss.
“Even with someone like Virat. In the initial days, just a couple of series with him as a captain, just a couple of matches. Getting to know him as well and to see how he goes about his business, the professionalism that he continues to display…his desired to improve, to get better. It’s been fascinating for me to watch.” Dravid stated he at all times believed within the procedure as a result of which, now and then, he was once misunderstood as no longer being result-oriented.
“For me that’s (results), of course it’s important. I keep saying and people think, ‘Oh, I think result are not important’. Of course, results are important.
“I’m in the business to produce results. But it’s always like, as a coach, to think about what is it that I can control to help the results and at the end of the day our responsibility should be to try and help the captain deliver his vision and his philosophy of how he wants the team to play.” “Of course, to win cricket games is a given. You try to win as much as you can. You start with that. But I always look back on what is it that leads to the winning? How do you win more games and what is the process required to win more games? “For me, the vision was to try and get that process right. Ticking all of those boxes. ‘Are we challenging the players enough? Are we practicing well enough? are we prepared tactically, technically? Are we supporting the players as best as we possibly can, Are we creating the right environment? “These are the things I think that are important to tick before you get to the winning. The winning, hopefully, if you do a lot of these things, most of the time the winning will take care of itself.”
