Also I thought another reason for Dravid stepping down, may have been his analysis that we need somebody to score big in the coming months against Pak and Australia. I don't think it is possible for us to bowl out Australia for under 500 consistently, so we have to score over 500 consistently. With no top order batsman looking likely to score 150s in the current set up (including Tendulkar, Ganguly, and Dravid (with captaincy pressures)), I think Dravid took it upon himself to perform the job of scoring big (150s and 200s), which he is more likely to do without the captaincy pressures. There are surely a lot of other factors in his resigning the captaincy, but this is one of the first advantages that happened to flash through my mind. Just a thought.
