The Surfer

Why did they drop Dravid?

Ayaz Memon is puzzled why Rahul Dravid when a) he has done a decent job in the few opportunities he had, b) none of the other batmsen have done anything particularly spectacular in the previous few months, c) there is a need for a technically strong

Ayaz Memon is puzzled why Rahul Dravid when a) he has done a decent job in the few opportunities he had, b) none of the other batmsen have done anything particularly spectacular in the previous few months, c) there is a need for a technically strong batsman against a potent Australian pace attack. Read his piece in DNA.

Brought in a few weeks back to shore up the suspect Indian batting against short-pitched bowling, he finds himself bowled neck and crop by a grubber, as it were, and this one bowled by the selectors themselves.

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The Cricket Watchers' Journal blog has a list of 'emergencies' Indian cricket has been bailed out of by Dravid.

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