Dravid - 'I don't judge people just by the numbers'
Dravid, spoke to S
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
Dravid, spoke to S. Ram Mahesh, of the Sportstar, after winning a historic series in the West Indies.
There's a perception that the captain and the coach are getting the team they want, and that it is a bad thing. Your thoughts.
For a long time I kept hearing the argument that a captain and a coach should get what they want! Maybe an impression gets created that we get what we want. I'm here to tell you that that's not always the case. Sometimes what I might want and what Greg Chappell might want may not be the same thing, so it's not that me and Greg agree on every single issue. The selectors have their point of view as well.
And Makarand Waingankar feels Greg Chappell needs to show more tact while handling Irfan Pathan.
Greg Chappell, who publicly said that the all-rounder was not considered because he had lost his confidence, would do well to realise that the mindset of the Indian fast bowlers has insecurity as its core in spite of the tremendous hard work put in by them to reach the top.
Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo