What does Rahul Dravid’s omission from the team really mean……।

Rahul has been left out of the first two ODIs for Pakistan. Now Sehwag has been given a chance. Pravin kumar makes his debut. But what’s with Dravids’ case. It’s simple. Everyone knows he is not in this best form currently. There is no point in playing him with Pakistan. He is got a very poor form. He has to get it back as soon as possible. And if you ask the cricket undits the best possible way to get back your form is to play domestic cricket and show that you still are eager to perform at the international level. So what the selectors did I right. Rightly omitting Dravid from the team. So that he an give more thought on his batting and improve the areas where he is getting wrong. And once he corrects them Dravid is in again.

Now there is a lot of speculation that Dravid is being omitted because the selectors are slowly trying to get the seniors out of the team and searching for the youth. Mind you TEAM INDIA does not have a coach. If the team only has youngsters it wont be able to well for a long time without the seniors in the longer version of the match. They won the 20-20 because of the captaincy of Dhoni and the cameos that were played by everyone. But in the 50 50 format it would be difficult without Sachin, Saurav and Rahul. Sachin and saurav are the best opening pair in the world and Rahul is the best batsman at no.3. The selectors have tried all the combinations. They tried dhoni, utthappa, gambhir, karthik. But everyone failed. Because a batsman playing at that position is required to play long innings.

What should be done is to give the youngsters a place in the test squad so that they get the version of playing long innings in an innings.

Now Rahul not in this best form has given many youngsters a chance to sneak in the team. Badrinanth, Suresh Raina, parthiv patel and a quite few are in a good touch but the selectors are looking for someone who can fit in the dravids’ shoes because surely he has aged and has to retire if he continues with this form.

Shoaib malik today mentioned that omission of Dravid will be making his and his team effort easy. But what he does not know is that Rahul has got great grit and guts to make a comeback. And if he is successful in getting his touch back he would surely be very dangerous in the test matches versus Pakistan and Australia.