New rules: Dravid plays it safe

For the moment this rule stands and teams have to name their super-sub in advance. And this gets into a tricky situation, especially in the sub-continent where teams winning the toss stand to gain outright. Dravid believes 8216;8216;specialists 8212; batsman or bowler 8212; are better of doing that duty because if you have a good all-rounder why not utilise him in the first XI and get his full services?8221;

Unlike Pakistan, Dravid doesn8217;t have the luxury of all-rounders; instead he has to make good with bits-and-pieces players. Even from this team, Sreesanth, Raina, Murali Kartik and Gambhir have been used as super-subs before and two of them, Gambhir and Sreesanth, have failed.

This apart, the use of power-play is another deciding factor. Both teams have a long list of strokemakers, batsmen who can hit the ball from the meat of the bat and carry on through the innings.