"Thanks a lot, buddy": Rahul Dravid loses his cool on 97 Test question - Cricket Winner

Team India head coach Rahul Dravid was asked some of his old memories as he attended the press conference before T20 World Cup 2024 match against Afghanistan. Dravid has a great cricketing career and tasted success as a coach too. But he didn’t have a good numbers behind him in Barbados as a player. And, a reporter reminded him of his poor stats at the venue, to which he was visibly irked and lost his cool at the question.

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However, Rahul Dravid gave the reporter the complete knowledge of his psyche, saying that he is someone who moves on quickly and is only looking to do well as a coach, whereas he is not thinking about his own performances as a player in the past s well.

Reporter: “Rahul, you as a player, you have played here. Not the best memories of the 97 Test?”

Dravid: “Geez, thanks a lot buddy! I have had some other decent memories here as well.”

Reporter: “That is actually my question. A chance for you to probably make new and much better memories tomorrow?”

Dravid: “God man! I am not trying to make new anything man!

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However, Rahul Dravid came to Barbados in 1997 when India took on West Indies. He scored 78 and 2 as the Indian team lost the Test by 38 runs in Bridgetown as well. Now as the coach of the Indian team, he is only thinking of the task at hand, and not what happened in the past as well.

“I move on from things very quickly” – Rahul Dravid

“I move on from things very quickly. That’s one of my things. I don’t look back on things. I try and look at what I am doing now, at the moment. I am not concerned about what happened in 97 or some other year,” he said.

“By winning this… you know. If you had told me that by winning this, we would have not scored 80-odd and scored 121, then I would be bothered. But, even if we win this match tomorrow, unfortunately, that is still going to remain 80 on the scorecard, however much I try and will it. No I don’t think about any retribution. I move on from things. What’s in front of me, good or bad? I don’t think of myself much as a player anymore. Yeah, just move on. Focus on tomorrow, and try and get a good result tomorrow,” Rahul Dravid said in the press conference.