Rahul Dravid has carried out his bit because the coach of the Indian cricket group. After making ready his gamers for the grandest enviornment of their profession, he now needs to retreat to the backstage and let Rohit Sharma‘s bunch create their very own lovely story. “Honestly once the game starts, it’s the captain’s team. It’s the team that needs to take it forward, they need to execute it, they need to do the job,” Dravid mentioned throughout his interplay with the media on Friday.

“As a coach I see my work in the lead up to the games, in the lead up to this World Cup, trying to get the squad we got eventually. Building up the team, building up the squad and then hoping to allow the players to play and express themselves to have fun,” said Dravid, who is known for his economy of emotions.

Controlling the controllables is Dhoni’s favourite phrase but no one believes in it more than Dravid.

“Yeah… I imply I suppose you recognise as a coach that after the sport begins, as soon as the fellows cross the road, there may be solely a lot you are able to do. As coaches, we do not rating a single run or take a single wicket within the match. All we will do is basically help the gamers.”

The job of a coach requires honesty in evaluation, one thing that Dravid retains in his head at all times.

“A lot of our work, to be very honest with you, is in the days leading up to these games. It’s in the practice sessions, hopefully the kind of mind space we get the people in and supporting the captain and the team in whatever way we can in the lead up,” he mentioned.

Asked what may very well be a secure complete within the match, Dravid gave a tongue in cheek reply.

“Just one more than the opposition, I think will be very safe [laughs]. Look, it’s hard to tell, hard to predict, in each condition. And that’s going to be the beauty of this World Cup,” he mentioned.

Dravid was primarily hinting on the selection in venues and pitches throughout this match.

“So many venues that these matches are going to be played in. So many different wickets on those venues. Some of the squares…even in India, you have red soil, black soil, you have a mix of red and black.

“Each one is going to be unique. I don’t think you can go and say that this is going to be a safe total, that’s not going to be a safe total,” he mentioned.

Supplementing his logic, Dravid mentioned: “We’ll probably play on a relatively bigger ground here in Chennai compared to say when we go to Bangalore or when we go to Delhi. Each venue will be different, we’ll just have to assess and see what it’s luck.” So, did he watch Rachin Ravindra‘s blazing hundred towards England on Thursday? “Yeah, bits and pieces of it. I thought both of them (Ravindra and Devon Conway) played really well. Obviously, they got New Zealand off to a really flying start in the tournament and looked like the wicket really became a good one as the game went on.”

2007 World Cup seems to be historical

The 2007 World Cup wasn’t his best hour and Dravid mentioned it was in his previous life. “It’s a long time since I was a player. I almost forgot that I was actually a cricket player at one stage to be very honest with you,” the smile was a bit self-deprecating.

“I have moved on from that. I don’t think of myself as a player anymore. Maybe that’s the mind space difference… I’m focussed on helping the group to do the best they can.

“I imply ultimately that is the job of the help employees, the job of the coach actually is to help the imaginative and prescient of the captain and assist him execute his imaginative and prescient over the course of the subsequent couple of months and hope we will do that basically effectively.”