RE:Where is Rahul The Wall Dravid?
by Dire Straits on Jul 14, 2008 09:18 PM Permalink
Tendulkar is way better than Dravid in Tests. In Tests it's not only about playing like a snail, it's also about scoring quickly and giving the bowlers enough time to knock off the 20 opposition wickets. It's a different matter when one have to save a Test match on the 5th day.
Dravid is a one-dimensional player with a strike rate od 42 in Tests. Players who play little aggressively in Test cricket are known as better players. For ex, Viv Richards is much better than Gavaskar because Viv dominated the bowling, while Gavaskar did not.
Dravid is a good Test player, never the best, or never better than Lara or Tendulkar or even Ponting.
RE:Where is Rahul The Wall Dravid?
by alert on Jul 14, 2008 09:21 PM Permalink
the matches we won against australia in calcutta after a follow on and sydney were only because of dravid and laxman not certainly because of tendulkar.. We lost even a preliminary match against bangla desh in world cup with Tendulakr , which does not happen at all to any team when they have a world class player.
RE:Where is Rahul The Wall Dravid?
by Dire Straits on Jul 14, 2008 09:24 PM Permalink
Why couldn't Dravid win us the match against Bangladesh ? The victory against Australia is 1 sole example. And Harbhajan took 32 wickets in that series, and it's primarily because of him we won. Test matches are won with the bowlers knocking off the 20 opposition wickets. In Calcutta Harbhajan and the bowlers did that and so we won.
RE:Where is Rahul The Wall Dravid?
by Dire Straits on Jul 14, 2008 09:30 PM Permalink
Tendulkar played the role of the lone warrior in the 1999 Test series vs Australia in Australia. No one else supported him. He won the MOS award in that Test series. The only difference is that when Dravid performed he got the bowlers support, while Tendulkar got no support from both the batsmen and the bowlers.
RE:Where is Rahul The Wall Dravid?
by alert on Jul 14, 2008 09:12 PM Permalink
fully agreed. Dravid is the one of the all time best indian batsman. Kapil dev all time best all-rounder.
