Former India captain and head coach Rahul Dravid on Sunday stated the nation’s huge cricketing potential is lastly translating into constant success, with a collection of victories in international tournaments reflecting the immense expertise lengthy current in Indian cricket. India have loved a outstanding run in ICC occasions, successful each of the final two males’s T20 World Cups, the ladies’s ODI World Cup, the lads’s U-19 World Cup and the ladies’s U-19 T20 World Cup over the previous two years.

Dravid, who was honoured with the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award on the annual awards perform of the Board of Management for Cricket in India, spoke concerning the staff’s success in an interplay with Star Sports activities. “It simply sort of feels proper, proper? “Nearly all the pieces coming collectively at this level of time the place Indian cricket has at all times had nice potential and it is (about) realising that potential on the sphere as effectively. Off the sphere, I feel we have at all times had all the pieces we would have liked and on the sphere, it has been nice to see that potential being realised.” Dravid stated the sustained success is the results of a number of parts aligning, from gamers and directors to coaches and followers. “It has been phenomenal. It is simply been superb to see the best way Indian cricket has grown over these three a long time,” he stated whereas reflecting on the journey since making his worldwide debut in 1996. “Indian cricket has at all times had superb expertise. We have at all times had actually good directors. We have at all times had actually good coaches (and) we have been capable of again that up with unbelievable infrastructure. We have at all times had a unbelievable home system, (a) superb junior cricket system.” “A few of the most unbelievable followers on this planet. The sort of supporters and followers that we’ve got, deserved all of this to return collectively, to have success on the sphere. It is superb to see how that every one of that’s coming collectively now.” Dravid, who guided India to the T20 World Cup title in 2024, additionally credited the present staff for dealing with the burden of expectations and delivering on the large stage. “It was simply beautiful to see… Simply the efficiency of the world T20 facet, the expectations had been immense. They began off as favourites, and it isn’t at all times simple,” Dravid stated. “Sure, after all, they’re an excellent facet, but it surely’s not at all times simple to start out off as favourites and be there proper on the finish and elevate a trophy. It comes with its personal pressures, its personal challenges. It was simply actually good to see Surya (Suryakumar Yadav) and Gautam (Gambhir) and the staff actually do this,” he stated.