Why Rahul Dravid is not a fan of ‘Do It For Dravid’ Campaign: ‘If you can get it removed, I’ll appreciate it’

However, Rahul Dravid has brushed off any suggestions that the team is motivated to win the T@0 World Cup “for him”.

The Team India head coach was asked by the broadcaster Star Sports about the campaign running in India: Do It For Dravid.

“It’s totally against who I am as a person. It’s totally against my values. I don’t really believe in this: do it for somebody,” Rahul Dravid said before going on to elaborate: “I love that quote about somebody asking someone, ‘Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?’ And he says, ‘Because it’s there’. Why do we want to win the World Cup? Because it’s there! It’s not for anyone, it’s not for anybody, it’s just there to win. We just want to play good cricket. All this ‘doing it for someone’ is against who I am as a person and what I believe in. So I don’t want to discuss it.”

Under Rahul Dravid’s mentorship, the Indian cricket team has come close to winning major ICC titles but has faltered at the final hurdles such as losing in the final of the ODI World Cup and losing the World Test Championship final last year.

Rahul Dravid later went on to sign off by telling the broadcaster: “If you can get that campaign removed, I’ll appreciate it.”

The Indian cricket board BCCI is in the process of finalising a replacement for Rahul Dravid as the national team coach with former India cricketer Gautam Gambhir being thought of as a front runner.