Being Rahul Dravid
The perception that far too much of Indian cricket is about the individual has been proved again by Rahul Dravid's dropping
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
The perception that far too much of Indian cricket is about the individual has been proved again by Rahul Dravid's dropping. Rahul Bhattacharya in the Hindustan Times, writes that Dravid should be allowed the latitude of fallibility. And sooner or later he will be back, not because he is a saint, because he is that even rarer thing in Indian sport: a champion.
Sportspersons touch followers in a way that is unique. You watch them in strife and in glory, in unremarkable situations and dramatic ones, exposed always, unfolding slowly - most slowly and revealingly in cricket. Soon you let them into your life, consider them somebody you know well. That - the assumption of intimacy - becomes a premise that is in fact more accurately a reflection of how you see the world. And in the case of Dravid the verdict is unanimous: we see him as a saint.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo