Kapil Dev's Advice Helped Rahul Dravid Take Coaching After...
Batting legend Rahul Dravid said that legendary India captain Kapil Dev helped him to think about coaching options after his retirement. That certainly worked for Dravid as he eventually took up the coaching job of India A and Under-19 teams. Under his guidance, India U-19 team won the World Cup in 2018 and reached the final in 2020 as well.
"After I finished (playing), there were quite a few options and I was not sure what to do. It was Kapil Dev who gave me this advice actually when I was coming to the end of my career," Dravid told the head coach of India women's team, WV Raman, on his chat show 'Inside Out'. "I bumped into him somewhere and he said 'Rahul, don't commit to doing anything straightaway, go out and spend a few years just exploring and doing different things and see what you really like'. I thought it was good advice."
While he said that he started liking commentary but later he felt like disconnect" from the game and being connected with the players give him satisfaction. And he shared that he liked to get involved through coaching when he got the opportunity of India A and Under-19 team.
The great batsman, who amassed 13288 runs from 164 Tests between 1996 and 2012 and currently the Head of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru said that te BCCI took a right decision on their U-19 teams. With that, a pool of 45 to 50 players can get the exposure to the facilities at NCA where they can have good coaches, good physios, good trainers and whatever required.
However, Rahul Dravid also revealed that he had doubt on himself as an ODI player when he was dropped from the squad in 1998 owing to his strike rate. He was not in the circuit for a year and he got insecure as well. But he came back with a bang to the ODI side before the 1999 World Cup in England and became the highest run-getter (461) of the tournament. He later played in the 2003 World Cup and also led the team in the 2007 World Cup.
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