MiD day March 30, 2007By: Suhrid Barua
Bangalore: Even as the voices for Rahul Dravid’s ouster from the mantle of captaincy get louder and louder after India’s unceremonious exit from the World Cup, former India batting great Gundappa Vishwanath feels the India skipper is still the right man for the job.“How can you lay the blame only on Dravid? As a captain he did the best he could. When our whole batting department failed at the World Cup, it’s unfair to train guns on the skipper alone,” Vishwanath told MiD DAY yesterday.Vishwanath said the team’s poor performance must be attributed to their spineless batting display in the Carribean. “As I look at it, the Indian batsmen’s failure to fire cost us dearly. Our batsmen took the run-chase against Sri Lanka very lightly. Our shot selection was below par and all these combined to complete our disaster recipe.”However, according to Vishwanath the powers-that-be need not press the panic button just yet and should persist with Dravid as captain. “I saw nothing wrong in Dravid’s captaincy at the World Cup. He did a pretty decent job and doesn’t deserve the flak when our batting wasn’t clicking,” he remarked.“By persisting with Dravid, Indian cricket can only move forward. There aren’t enough options to look at.“If you look at the young guns, I don’t think Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag are ready. Yuvraj has come back from an injury prior to the World Cup, while Sehwag has run into some sort of form only against Bermuda after hitting a long trough. They can only be groomed for the future.”
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