Official news : BCCI officially announced that after WC Rahul Dravid will take head coach responsibility.
This is great news. Have always been a fan of Dravid and his batting style which is why I am excited to see him as the head coach in the future. Good decision BCCI.
Its welcome news but we have to see if nice boy Dravid could change "We don't care" type behavior in Indian camp. After Kumble's saga Shashtri-Virat duo took this attitude into different level.
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Another 100 or less scorecard in the WC. This time Bangladesh going down the hill, they are indeed missing Shakib badly.
I don't know how much impact do coaches make in game of players who are already into middle of their careers. But one thing that would obviously change is the approach and attitude towards team selection and team combination, I feel Dravid was somewhat successful as a captain it was just that he didn't had a good team with him, his team was old and most of the players were still playing the 90s cricket. Also his technique is what I think would help team the most, especially in our struggle on England and Australian pitches. No one in the world has ever had a better technique than him.
Defending champions and big power house of T-20, Windies is out from this World Cup. After seeing their dismal performance as a unit, its safe to say that they will now enter into transition mode. Considering Universe boss Gayle might retire soon after all he's 40+ now. Players like Bravo (38) and Pollard (34) are also getting oldies, although they might stick with the team for year or two.
WI too is an old grown team now, all these players are pinch hitters and more like commercial freelancers now. They do have many individual heroics in their name but have never gelled well together as a team and when you don't have this coordination amongst the team it's difficult to perform at this level.