It's been 100 days as head coach of Indian cricket team for Rahul Dravid. From captaincy controversy, Test series defeat in South Africa to winning the white-ball series against West Indies at home, it's been a roller-coaster ride for the former captain. Dravid is keen to see India do well in the T20 World Cup in Australia later this year and he says a lot of work remains. India did not qualify for the knockouts in T20 World Cup in UAE in 2021. (Video and photos: BCCI)
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00:00 It's been a great learning experience.
00:01 I mean, you just run through everything.
00:03 And for me, when I look at that, it's been--
00:06 I've learned a lot.
00:07 I mean, I know it's not--
00:09 it's been-- like you rightly said,
00:11 I'm not stressed too much about the results.
00:15 And yeah, but for me, it's--
00:17 I just want the team to get better.
00:18 We just want to move in the right direction.
00:21 Yeah, I mean, South Africa, like I mentioned,
00:23 was a reality check for us, especially in the one-day
00:27 format.
00:29 Test cricket, while it was disappointing,
00:31 a few things could have gone our way.
00:33 We would have a bit of luck.
00:34 But yeah, I mean, I think we just--
00:37 for me, it's really important to keep learning as a coach,
00:40 to keep improving.
00:42 As we've learned, and I keep learning every day,
00:44 new things crop up, new things come up.
00:46 I'm not going to--
00:47 I don't expect not to make mistakes.
00:49 I'm going to make mistakes.
00:50 I'm going to get stuff wrong.
00:53 But I'll learn.
00:54 I'll improve.
00:55 And I'll get better.
00:57 And I hope the team will want to do that.
00:59 And that's what we want to do.
01:00 We want to keep going forward.
01:02 And we've learned something.
01:03 This series is not about winning.
01:05 It's not-- I'm not excited.
01:05 I mean, yeah, of course, we're happy to win.
01:07 And it's better to win than to lose, let's be honest.
01:09 But for me, it's just really been
01:11 nice to see some of the younger guys come through in this one
01:14 day, in this T20 series, and how they've--
01:17 it's not been an easy to beat.
01:18 I think the West Indies are a tough team
01:21 to beat in T20 cricket, especially.
01:22 They're a very strong team, as we saw.
01:24 They've got some real power hitters.
01:26 They've got people really low down the order who can--
01:29 they can take the game away from you.
01:31 And the way some of our boys have stepped up,
01:33 we've had to bat first, in twice,
01:36 bowl in really wet conditions with a wet ball twice,
01:39 and defend scores.
01:41 So I think these are the kind of things that tell you--
01:44 they make you feel happy, and that we're
01:45 moving in the right direction.
01:46 Some of the pieces are coming together.
01:48 But we'll need to keep improving.
01:49 We'll need to keep getting better.
01:52 We're far from the finished product.
01:54 And I think we want to be really competitive in Australia.
01:58 We've got to improve.
01:59 We've got to get better.
02:00 And we've got to execute better with both bat and ball,
02:03 and in the field as well.
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