Word: dravid
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...last one ended four years ago, the poor performance has been cause for despair even - or perhaps especially - amongst those for whom despair has become a way of life. So far, save a few demonstrators holding up signs calling on the coach Greg Chappell or the captain Rahul Dravid to resign, and a few cases where pictures of players were set alight for the cameras, that despair has not turned into violence. Most people seem depressed more than angry...
...Amid the national soul-searching now under way, the BCCI says it will meet in Mumbai next week to analyze what went wrong. Chappell and Dravid will have their say. "We are disappointed but will listen to everything with an open mind," BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah told the Hindustan Times. But the pressure for change is already building. A non-scientific Times of India survey found that 87% of readers think Dravid should be removed as captain, while 92% feel one-time star batsman Sachin Tendulkar should be axed altogether. To the question "Is something fundamentally wrong with...
...every four years in the game's one-day format?and that was in 1983. It's been almost as long since India took a foreign Test series, not counting its victory against lowly Zimbabwe last autumn. "The cricket talent in India is still very much untapped," says Rahul Dravid, captain of the country's team. "The hope is that the new money can help find our future stars...
...Laxman remained at the wicket for almost two days, besting nine Australian bowlers and smashing 44 boundaries. By the time he got out, on the morning of Day 5, he had amassed 289 runs, a record for an Indian test batsman. More important, he and Rahul Dravid (180) had led India to the awe-inspiring total of 657 for the loss of only seven wickets. Some 50,000 people had crowded into the ground as word spread around Calcutta that Laxman and Dravid were flaying the Australian bowling...
...With bat and ball, skill, timing, determination and courage, Laxman, Harbajan and Dravid had changed the mood of a nation...
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