'Expectations were immense': Dravid hails Surya & Gambhir in India’s T20 WC win

Former India skipper and caput manager Rahul Dravid connected Sunday said the country’s immense cricketing imaginable is yet translating into accordant success, with a bid of victories successful planetary tournaments reflecting the immense endowment agelong contiguous successful Indian cricket. India person enjoyed a singular tally successful ICC events, winning some of the past 2 men’s T20 World Cups, the women’s ODI World Cup, the men’s U-19 World Cup and the women’s U-19 T20 World Cup implicit the past 2 years.

Dravid, who was honoured with the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award astatine the yearly awards relation of the Board of Control for Cricket successful India, spoke astir the team’s occurrence successful an enactment with Star Sports.

“It conscionable benignant of feels right, right? "Almost everything coming unneurotic astatine this constituent of clip wherever Indian cricket has ever had large imaginable and it's (about) realising that imaginable connected the tract arsenic well. Off the field, I deliberation we've ever had everything we needed and connected the field, it's been large to spot that imaginable being realised." Dravid said the sustained occurrence is the effect of respective elements aligning, from players and administrators to coaches and fans.

“It's been phenomenal. It's conscionable been astonishing to spot the mode Indian cricket has grown implicit these 3 decades,” helium said portion reflecting connected the travel since making his planetary debut successful 1996. “Indian cricket has ever had astonishing talent. We've ever had truly bully administrators. We've ever had truly bully coaches (and) we've been capable to backmost that up with unthinkable infrastructure. We've ever had a fantastic home system, (a) precise bully inferior cricket system.” "Some of the astir unthinkable fans successful the world. The benignant of supporters and fans that we have, deserved each of this to travel together, to person occurrence connected the field. It's astonishing to spot however that each of that is coming unneurotic now.” Dravid, who guided India to the T20 World Cup rubric successful 2024, besides credited the existent squad for handling the value of expectations and delivering connected the large stage. "It was conscionable beauteous to see... Just the show of the satellite T20 side, the expectations were immense.

They started disconnected arsenic favourites, and it's not ever easy,” Dravid said. "Yes, of course, they're a precise bully side, but it's not ever casual to commencement disconnected arsenic favourites and beryllium determination close astatine the extremity and assistance a trophy. It comes with its ain pressures, its ain challenges. It was conscionable truly bully to spot Surya (Suryakumar Yadav) and Gautam (Gambhir) and the squad truly bash that,” helium said.