‘Rahul Dravid has no ego’: Shoaib Malik shares an anecdote about India’s batting legend and coach | Cricket Information

NEW DELHI: After retiring from cricket as one of many best batters the game has seen, Rahul Dravid transitioned from being the top of Nationwide Cricket Academy to be the coach of India under-19, India ‘A’ and now the senior Indian workforce. Heaping reward on Dravid, former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik shared a private anecdote, reflecting on how the previous India captain’s workman-like learing angle is taking Indian cricket to new heights.
Below head coach Dravid, the Indian workforce is on an unbeaten run within the ongoing ICC World Cup, having gained all their six matches up to now. They’ll tackle Sri Lanka in Mumbai on Wednesday.
Speaking on the Pakistan information channel ‘A Sports activities’, Malik stated it is the self-less strategy of Dravid that’s serving to him do effectively in his position as India coach, particularly having labored his means up from the time he was appointed India under-19 coach.

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To spotlight that facet of Dravid’s character, Malik shared an anecdote.
“We had been travelling from Pakistan to New Zealand. On the identical time (on the identical flight), the Indian under-19 workforce was travelling,” Malik narrated, as the opposite company on the present, together with Wasim Akram, Moin Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq, listened to the story.

“Rahul Dravid was the under-19 coach then. I used to be sleeping, and he waited for 2 hours for me to get up as a result of he wished to talk to me. He wished to ask me ‘you’ve gotten made so many comebacks, what motivates you?’. He stated, ‘I’m teaching the under-19 workforce, so I need to inform them what is the psyche behind this’,” Malik stated.

“So what I’m attempting to say by that is that he has no ego. He wished to be taught what you undergo (whereas attempting to make a comeback). In his personal profession he has seen a lot of ups and downs. So he requested me and I instructed him. I preferred that quite a bit. The training course of by no means ends and look the place the Indian workforce is standing at present (underneath Rahul Dravid).”