Shifting roles is not easy, and that too when you are about to enter the sunset of your career.
When Dravid was shifted to the openers slot, the primary object is to see the shine off the new ball and provide striking opportunities to hte later middle order batsmen. With Jaffer going early, if he too chooses to score off runs and in the process gets out and expose the middle order with the newball still with shine on it, he was not doing what was expected of him.
He might have consumed 66 balls; but he took the shine off the ball in those 66 balls he faced and gave the next batsmen to follow and good ball to strike.
So Dravid would not have scored runs; take 50% of credit for it. But he did as an opener consumed 11 overs on himself alone. You ought to give credit to him for that!
Remember it is never easy to shift roles and too against a team like Australia and again IN AUSTRALIA!
RE:DRAVID DID 50% OF HIS JOB
by CricFan01 on Dec 28, 2007 01:14 AM Permalink
After playing 66 balls for 5 runs, if he had scored a 50 then we would not complain but he got out after that. Moreover he was lucky, could have got out on 2 occasions, one a dropped catch by Jacques and other caught off no-ball.
