Dravid resigns as India captain

Use SG's, more replies, tell Dello to merge both later.

it's going to be funny when this is merged and makes even less sense.

Something sinister indeed!

I reckon Dravid was caught with his pants down on the England tour and the board covered it up but insisted he resign the captaincy.

No not really, but it's a good story.

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Maybe everyone complaining about his decisions finally got to him? Or maybe he didn't like the fact that his batting became crap when he took over.

reply no. 14 but want something sensible? dravid resigned? oh my god!

This can go into the second page too. Henry, I'm makin' it longa.

Or that he was a master at winning tosses and screwing up.

Stoopid Sharad Pawar, can't understand a word he's saying.

Oh yeah, maybe Pawar misinterpreted what Dravid was trying to convey to him. And that duffer Shah.

I admire your persistence and the puns that are made out of my name.

Did you hear HH_pink? Dravid resigned as captain.

He was a crap ODI captain, but his test record was pretty good.

The phrase "concentrate on his game" can be made out.

Why should Dravid seek out Pawar and tell him about his decision first anyway? Pawar is like the big boss? Yeah he is, but still it's weird. He's not God or anything.

Henry Nolonga wrote:Maybe everyone complaining about his decisions finally got to him? Or maybe he didn't like the fact that his batting became crap when he took over.

May be, Henry.

You've to agree tactically he looked like a novice.

HH_pink wrote:Why should Dravid seek out Pawar and tell him about his decision first anyway? Pawar is like the big boss? Yeah he is, but still it's weird. He's not God or anything.

Actually I think it's pretty common practice in any profession to inform the boss that you are resigning before you tell anyone else(Except for family).

The players in South Africa are reported to be shocked. That's breaking news for you...:rolleyes:

Henry wrote:

HH_pink wrote:Why should Dravid seek out Pawar and tell him about his decision first anyway? Pawar is like the big boss? Yeah he is, but still it's weird. He's not God or anything.

Actually I think it's pretty common practice in any profession to inform the boss that you are resigning before you tell anyone else(Except for family).

Well, he could've gone down the: don't turn up to work for weeks and wait to be fired, route.

As for his batting, yep it managed to sink to ridiculous heights of late (by his standards).

His overall batting average when leading India was still bit respectable, 44.51 as against his career average of 56.50.

Its since SA tour last year, his batting hit a new low. In 6 tests (excluding 2 tests against hapless Banglas), he scored just 251 runs in 11 innings @ 22.81 and his highest score in the intervening period was just 55 in Oval test where he eventually led India for the last time in his career.

I'd say its a very good decision by Dravid.

Stoopid Sharad Pawar, can't understand a word he's saying.

He used to be a poor speaker. But since his mouth surgery, one can hardly understand what the hell he is saying.

Wonder how'll one understand him when he'll become ICC chairman?

Some people are not meant to be captains, not meant to lead. He was a fabulous deputy. Sambit Bal was just talking about how much he put into his batting and how he always was surprised he could take on extra load of captaincy.

Respect to the man.

he was probably fed up of throwing matches for the BCCI-Bookie match-fixing lobby and that too on a constant basis.

Something that countries like Australia have to do only once in a while (throwing away matches to Zim) was done by Dravid and the Indian team almost every alternate match.

If all that you are doing is throwing away matches, then that is something any captain can do.

Why do you need dravid for that ? Even R.Pee. Singh would be enough for that job.

Nice to see people being unbiased. Bangaloreans are crowding outside his house trying to dissuade him, while the Kolkatans have already started campaigning for Ganguly.

Surprise, surprise, surprise!!!!

Greg Chappell of all persons, saying that either Tendulkar or Ganguly should lead India in Australia.