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Currently there is a campaign going on on social media #DoitForDravid… You can understand why this is happening. Indian cricket team fans are urging Rohit Sharma and company to win T20 World Cup 2024 for Rahul Dravid. The Rohit Sharma-led team is scheduled to take on South Africa in the final of the T20 World Cup today, which will be Rahul Dravid’s last match as the head coach.
This is the second T20 World Cup as a coach for Rahul Dravid, who became the head coach of Team India after the T20 World Cup 2021. In 2022, the team coached by him lost in the semi-finals, while in 2023 India also lost in the final of the World Test Championship and in November 2023, India also lost in the final of the ODI World Cup. Dravid has had a good stint as a coach, but the ICC trophy still eludes him.
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He never won the World Cup not only as a coach but also as a captain or a player of Team India. He was part of the ICC Champions Trophy winning team in 2002, but that time the team became joint winners. As a player in such a position, he has never won the final of an ICC tournament. However, as the head coach of the U19 team, he won the title in 2018, but is not involved in professional cricket.
This is the reason why everyone wants Team India to win this World Cup and send Rahul Dravid off with full honours. This is also being called the last T20 World Cup for captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, as the next T20 World Cup will be held in 2026 and by then many players will have come over from domestic cricket and the IPL. Even now many players are looking for open and third position.
Rahul Dravid worked as head coach for India in 17 bilateral series and India won 14 of them. During his tenure as coach, India’s winning percentage in Test cricket was 65, while India won 73.47 percent of its matches in One Day International cricket. India’s win percentage in bilateral T20 international series was 61 per cent, which is certainly low, but India play more against big teams.