Rahul Dravid After Leading India to T20 World Cup Win: "As A Player, I Was Not Lucky Enough To Win a Trophy But I Gave My Best..."

Rahul Dravid was a proud man as he signed off as the head coach of the Indian national men’s cricke team with the 2024 T20 World Cup title, beating South Africa by 7 runs in the final at the Kensington Oval in Barbados’s Bridgetown on Saturday.

Dravid, known for his calm and composed demeanour, let his emotions show when India won the match. He went all out with his emotions and was also seen cheering at the top of his voice on the podium while lifting the trophy following the medal ceremony.

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Speaking to the press after the celebrations, Dravid said: “This was a journey of 2 years, this T20 World Cup. The construction of this team and the kind of skills we wanted, the players we wanted. The discussions started when I started in 2021…this is not the work of just this World Cup…It feels like a journey of 2 years…”

“As a player, I was not lucky enough to win a trophy but I gave my best…I was lucky enough to be given an opportunity to coach a team, I was lucky that this bunch of boys made it possible for me to be able to win this trophy. It is a great feeling, it is not like I was aiming for some redemption, it was the job I was doing…it has been a great journey…,” he added.

Under Dravid’s mentorship, India played three consecutive ICC finals including the World Test Championship and the ODI World Cup last year. India failed to outdo Australia on both occasions and had to wait for the coveted silverware until Barbados.

Dravid feels India will continue to dominate cricket and predicts more trophies in the coming years.

“The boys nowadays, there is fantastic talent in the Indian cricket team. Their energy and confidence is on another level at this time…in the coming times, India will win so many trophies, in the next 5-6 years…,” he said.

Rohit Sharma, who called time on his international career in the shortest format, along with Virat Kohli. Dravid reflecting on the decision of the two Indian stars, said: “…I will miss him as a person…what impresses me is the kind of person he is, the respect he has shown me, the kind of care and commitment he had for the team, the kind of energy he had to spent and he never backed down. For me, it will be the person I will miss the most…”

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