Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Rahul Dravid needs support

After a great farewell to ganguly, there is lot of talks about Rahul considering his current low phase.
Rahul is legendary player and he is going through a bad phase he needs some strong backing.
I am sure Dravid will bounce back soon and will fire on full throttle.
MS Dhoni has finally spoke out something about Rahul.Currently, when everyone is worried about Rahul's form, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni believes he's too big a player to worry about. "All players go through a phase," Dhoni said. "But Dravid is a great player and has proved himself time and again for us. So we are not worried about his form."
Although in Mohali that was not the case. After a bright innings of 39 in the first essay, Dhoni, the stand-in captain, decided to bring himself up the order with quick runs being the need of the hour. The situation wasn't all that different here, but India chose to stick with the same batting order in the second innings. Rahul could not get double figure on his name again.
Dhoni said the good start India got in the second innings didn't call for a gamble to follow.
"We got off to a good start and decided to send Dravid in," he said. "It's better to send someone in this situation who hasn't been in touch of late."
That is something which may bring a ray of hope in Rahul's career.These words hold an importance from Rahul's point of view because he can get himself out of the pressure of being dropped.We will have to wait till England series (1st test match on 11 Dec.).

Out-of-form Rahul Dravid on Sunday got support from unexpected quarters with Australia coach Tim Nielsen backing the former India captain to get out of the lean patch soon.
Nielsen said Dravid's poor form was compounded by the fact that he got out to good balls in the ongoing series against Australia."I think Rahul has had one of those series where he seems to have got quite a few good balls. Every time he has nicked the ball, it has gone straight to the keeper or slips and they have caught it. One jumped a bit in the first innings (in the Test here) and he gloved it straight to short leg," Nielsen said."He is just having a bit of a rut at the moment where it seems as though he is a low spot as far as scoring runs and not having a lot of luck. It's interesting. He has been training hard," Nielsen added.Dravid's poor run in the series in which he has aggregated just 120 runs from seven innings with a lone fifty in it has raised question marks about his continued presence in the team when the two-Test series against England commences next month at Ahmedabad."We often see him down the nets when we are there having a session by himself and working hard. I know the quality of player that he is, I am sure he will make a lot of runs in the future. It was just his turn to have a bit of a dry spot this series and he will come back hard," Nielsen elaborated.Nielsen pointed out that the other Indian batsmen have made up for Dravid's indifferent form. "But his team has made up for it by scoring a lot of runs around him," he added.

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