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Dravid Vs Ganguly

Life is a race and every true race consists of competitors. One can shine or go vain solely depending on his character and approach towards the race. This can be learnt from a very old story that rounds a hare and a turtle and in recent times, can be aptly compared to very famous Team India of Cricket recent captains - Sourav Ganguly (playing the Rabbit) and Rahul Dravid (portraying the Tortoise).
Starting their careers in the concerned field from the same ground opposite same opponent, they depict the real perfect race in their cricket life between them. Both came with good knocks, Sourav with a ton (131) and Dravid almost a ton (95) against England at Lord's in their debut performance. Right after their blistering start, Dravid maintained a low profile and Ganguly had a flier with superb knocks in succession at the start. It is because of his success and high attitude that placed him ahead of Dravid in the captaincy race to succeed Sachin Tendulkar. Though had a good reign as a captain to Indian team, Ganguly found himself in an utter despair due to his attitude and works off the field.
Though known for his commanding skills and supporting youngsters in team and for most wins for the team abroad and the success in many events including World cup (2003), Ganguly had to face the harsh decision of selectors to leave him aside from the International team. Infact, it is not any others conspiracy but his own attitude which caused this situation. Being a captain of a successful team, he crossed his level of confidence and began dictating terms instead of commanding. Also, in due course he had a poor run of form in both forms of cricket that still continues in his domestic appearances. Also, he was awarded the most penalties for not controlling and leading his team in proper way, which created a negative mark on his stature.Hence, inspite of starting the race with a chance of getting into a commanding position he lost himself in dark clouds of evil reputation. Certainly, comparable with the rabbit of the story stated earlier, where it over looks the ability of the turtle with over confidence.
On the contrary, Dravid made a slow but steady start on his career that now led him to his desirable position of the Indian team captain behind which counted his lots and loads of hardwork and commitment. Even though dropped from the One Day form of game, he never let his confidence levels to go down and turned up with a bang and always checked his boundaries regarding his behavior and attitude. Obviously, he was the ultimate choice for the selectors at the time of a leader to the team. Being experienced in captaincy (Dravid was the Captain of Karnataka Team apart from being a Wicket Keeper – Batsman in the team, on the other side, Ganguly still plays under the captain ship of others (Rohan Gavaskar) for his home team, West Bengal) he aptly shown his skills even as a good commander backing up his fellow team mates and leading the team in the path of victory in both forms of the Game. Also, maintaining good relations with his coach and managers, which Ganguly failed in maintaining and triggered his downfall, Dravid emerged as the most successful captain of the team and certainly the winner of the race.
Hence, with slow and steady performance and controlled behavior Dravid made his mark on the team ahead of that of Ganguly and achieved the commanding position in the race, like the tortoise that eventually won the race between itself and the hare.
Thus, by the whole comparison of the two famous personalities of our cricket team with those of the characters of the story which narrates the moral of being slow and steady wins the race, it is true to virtue that Dravid deserves a higher applaud and a bit more than his contemporary. Thus concluding the discussion, this article certainly deserves the positive remarks for focusing on the truth with parity.

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