When Rahul Dravid coached India to an U-19 World Cup win in 2018 – guiding the likes of Shubman Gill and Arshdeep Singh – it appeared prefer it was a matter of time until he turned the Head Coach of the senior India Males’s cricket group. And so it proved to be. Now, because the curtains are drawn on the 2024 T20 World Cup, Rahul Dravid’s two-and-a-half-year-long tenure involves an in depth. Will he, nay ought to he, be remembered fondly for guiding India in a transitional section regardless of the burning starvation for a serious title?

Very similar to his predecessor Ravi Shastri, Rahul Dravid has possessed a dominant Indian group with little or no ICC silverware to indicate for it. However ought to it outline his legacy?

The undisputed greatest group on the planet

By all stats and figures – and performances – Rahul Dravid’s Crew India has been the most effective group on the planet. Crew India have received 41 out of 56 ODIs, 48 out of 69 T20Is, and misplaced only one Take a look at sequence, profitable 5 and drawing two. In all codecs, India’s type has been dominant and a lower above another group on earth.

In 2023, India walked to the Asia Cup title. And in 2024, Dravid’s India held the No. 1 spot within the groups’ rankings in all three codecs, an unprecedented first in Indian cricket historical past.

At residence, Australia and England have been no match for India. Away from residence, India took the struggle to England and South Africa, with two drawn sequence.

The damage of misplaced Finals

2023 proved to be a yr of damage for India, because the World Take a look at championship and ODI World Cup campaigns led to ache within the Remaining. The 2 tournaments stay uncommon black spots in a shining period of Crew India underneath Rahul Dravid.

In actuality, the ache of the misplaced finals reveals the extent of dominance that Dravid’s India managed to hit. India had been practically unbeaten within the 2023 World Cup and unbeaten within the 2024 T20 World Cup. It says one thing when a semi-final within the 2022 T20 World Cup is the worst India has accomplished in a serious ICC match on this interval.

If something, Dravid’s period ought to be celebrated as one in all India’s best durations, and never be seemed again on with the damage of misplaced finals.

Transition to the Rohit Sharma period; and transition in id

The beginning of Rahul Dravid’s tenure as Head Coach collided with the tumultuous change in captaincy from Virat Kohli to Rohit Sharma in all codecs. However Dravid did not look to duplicate the boisterous nature of the Kohli-Shastri period. Selecting to remain behind the scenes, Dravid let Rohit Sharma’s India develop into a cohesive unit.

However the calmer it was off the sphere, the bolder India performed on it. Rohit led by instance, going laborious on the high throughout the World Cup and displaying ‘Crew Comes First’. Dravid’s India then out-Bazballed Baz in India.

With captaincy debuts for Hardik Pandya and Shubman Gill, a pathway for the long run has additionally been set in stone.

Remaining ideas

Dravid’s period as India Head Coach ends with well-deserved silverware; this time an unbeaten match coming to fruition. It’s a becoming finale to mark the tip of one other historic legacy for one in all India’s biggest cricket personalities.

Because the well-known saying goes, “Ant bhala toh sab bhala” (All’s nicely that ends nicely).