Panaji: Former Indian captain Rahul Dravid on Sunday said that cricket’s influence in his life was such that the game made him a better person.
“One and half years after my retirement I have realised that cricket has made me a better human. I learnt from successes and failures,” Dravid said, speaking at convocation ceremony of BITS-Pilani Goa campus today, in the presence of Dr Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chancellor of the institute.
Dravid narrated several anecdotes from his career, starting from his school days, making a special mention of school principal, Father Coelho.
He also said that his father was an ardent fan of the game. “After Australia tour I felt it is time to make way for the next generation. Now I am back to the little boy listening to cricket commentary in my father’s studio,” said Dravid, who dubbed himself as a boy from a middle-class family.
There were millions of ways to be successful, he said. “You don’t have to be number one in the world, you have to be number one to yourself by achieving all the height which you always aimed,” Dravid said, receiving a huge applause from the students.
Last week, the former Indian cricket captain had claimed that his comments on restoring the credibility of the game, after the recent IPL spot-fixing scandal, have been taken out of context. “It is disappointing that my comments have been taken out of context by some sections of the media,” Dravid was quoted as saying in a tweet posted by ‘ESPNCricinfo’, the website to which he gave the interview.
“A lot of conclusions and inferences have drawn from Rahul Dravid’s quotes on credibility. Wait for the full interview,” read the website’s twitter handle.
Dravid had expressed anguish over the recent IPL spot-fixing scandal and its fallout, saying that restoring the credibility of the game is of utmost importance failing which cricketers may lose respect of their fans. “There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.
“Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do.”
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