Rahul Dravid has no regrets after retiring from limited overs cricket - Cricket News Update
Former Indian captain and one of the great batsmen of modern day cricket, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Dravid-c2229, has said that he does not have any regrets of quitting limited overs cricket because he will still be playing Test cricket for some years to come.
India had a nightmare series against England as the Men in Blue faced a humiliating 4-0 defeat in the Test series and majority of the Indian players failed to counter the aggressive cricket of the home team. However, Dravid was an exception as he scored
heavily during the Test series without getting any help from any of the other batsmen.
His brilliant performance in the Test series earned him a recall to the limited overs squad but the veteran announced his retirement from the shorter form of the game by saying that the series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 will be his last. However, the ‘wall of India’
could not save his team from humiliation in the limited overs portion of the tour as well.
Dravid believes that he is more suited to the longer version of the sport and this is the reason why he will continue to play Test cricket only.
He said, “It does not feel like I’m finishing in some sense. I will still be doing the same things I have been doing in last two and a half years. But I had to work harder on my one-day cricket than in Tests.”
The 38-year-old Dravid played 344 ODIs for India in which he scored a mammoth 10889 runs at an average of 39.16 with the help of 12 hundreds and 83 half-centuries. But the great batsman did not get enough recognition in limited overs cricket as compared
to Test cricket.
Dravid said that it has not been an easy road for him in the limited overs format as he is naturally a Test match batsman.
“When I started playing, I wasn’t recognised as a one-day player. There was a lot more learning I had to do. I was dropped in the middle of my career, had to learn some lessons and it helped free up my Test cricket as well. I ended up playing over 300 games
for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750,” Dravid added.
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