Culprit of India's Loss

It's none other than Rahul Dravid for his extraordinary batting performance( 5(66) and 16(114)) in both of the Indian innings.



I know it is a test and you need to play cautiously or slowly or defensively or whatever it is but not like him. We just can't attribute this batting performance, to his poor form in the past few months but also to different aspects like loss of captaincy, bad terms with the selectors, management, and many more things.....

In the recent test, he was no where near the ball. He was just concentrating on being there, in the middle, for a longer period of time. That is good, unless it is not affecting the batsman at the other end. If we observe the opening pair of Dravid and Jaffer, this imbalance is  clearly visible. None of them were willing to go after the ball. Jaffer is also to be blamed, but his little time in the middle, did not affect the proceedings compared to that of Dravid's innings.

Just imagine, scoring 16 runs after playing for 19 overs. This has affected not only the scoring rate but also gave the opposition bowlers to gain an upperhand over Indian batsmen. It's something like boosting the morale of the Aussie bowlers.

Enough is enough let us rest him for a while, so that he can get back his confidence and we can see our old 'Wall' back in action with form though.......  :-)