Former South African star and captain Graeme Smith defended Indian Coach Rahul Dravid and said fair opportunity should be given to Rahul to guide the Indian team while speaking to TOI.
Graeme Smith on Dravid:
“The biggest challenge in India for a leader is balancing those squads, balancing your tour schedules, the different formats, and those are some of the biggest decisions that are coming ahead of Rahul and his selection team. What do those squads look like, how do they move those teams forward,”
“He’s a quality man and a quality performer. He’s shown it right through as a coach. So, you’ve got to give him a fair opportunity now to kind of rebuild India,” added the South African.
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Rohit Sharma was under Pressure:
“When you get involved in a leadership role in Indian cricket, the expectation is something that you are going to have to come to terms with. There’s a huge quality of players. India can put two or three teams together.
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“One of the biggest challenges of a captain is your own personal performance. The pressure of a leader never goes away. Rohit probably needs to just refresh. His form hasn’t been probably at a level consistently. We look at the IPL over several years now and obviously the WTC final…he is having a bit of a rough patch and often that personal performance can just settle things down a little bit,” said the 42-year-old.
“No one is criticizing his captaincy or leadership style. It’s just obviously on the personal performance side, if he can get some really good scores behind him, it takes a lot of that pressure away,” he added.