“Without Being Disrespectful…”: Rahul Dravid’s Large Take On Home Cricket

The legendary Rahul Dravid on Sunday stated that Indian cricket has developed into an “extremely powerful” drive, because of the rising expertise pool that now extends to even the remotest corners of the nation. Dravid, who masterminded India’s triumph within the T20 World Cup, stated a powerful membership cricket tradition has loads to do with bucking the previous pattern of metropolis cricketers dominating the passage to the nationwide workforce. “If you look at Indian cricket today, Indian cricket is extremely strong, it’s extremely powerful. One of the big reasons for that is that talent comes from everywhere, from all over the country,” stated Dravid through the fiftieth 12 months celebration of Mount Joy Cricket Club.

“I think if you go back to the time of say GR Vishwanath or even when I was starting out my career, most of the talent came from the big cities or from few other states.”

“Even if they were talented boys in smaller places, they had to come to the big cities to play cricket. But today I think you see in Indian cricket that boys are coming from everywhere,” he added.

Dravid stated it is getting mirrored within the requirements of home cricket in India.

“You just look at the standard of the Ranji Trophy. In the old days when you played in the South Zone, other than playing Hyderabad or Tamil Nadu, I think it is fair to say, without being disrespectful, that a lot of other teams you could take it not for granted but you could certainly take it a little bit more lightly.

“I do not suppose there’s any workforce within the South Zone right this moment which you could stroll in and say that you’ll comfortably beat,” he added.

Hailing the club cricket structure in the country, particularly in Karnataka, Dravid said the system has allowed the sport to remain accessible to all.

“We want golf equipment to be sturdy. We want cricket to not be concentrated within the palms of some individuals. We want cricket to be egalitarian, we want it to be in all places.

“You cannot have talent or you cannot have facilities concentrated only in one or two places. To get the best out of talent, we need to ensure that young boys and girls are getting access to good infrastructure in every part,” he famous.

The 51-year-old former Indian captain then briefly revisited his membership profession when he was younger to underscore the necessity for that system to thrive.

“After the practice, HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) would give us two eggs and one small glass of milk. I would always stay back for that glass of milk and those eggs. Not because I wanted the milk and eggs.

“But as a result of I needed to sit down and take heed to the likes of BK Kumar or Nandan speaking about cricket. And it was nice enjoyable to take heed to them and study a lot from them,” stated Dravid.

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