There was a comment made on one of my earlier posts where I said Dravid failed again and the gentleman informed me that he had scored some fifties recently and all that.

But I think it is fair to say that given the lofty standards he has set, scoring under 20 against a hapless Zimbabwe attack is a failure on his part.

I have chronicled his innings so far and have tried to make a focal point:

* He is dependable, but we tend to get blinded by his successes and ignore his failures. This is perfectly ok with any player, but I think when we compare his performances and Sachin’s, for some reason, Sachin’s are always ‘discounted’. I don’t like it, and hence I had to take this step.

And I think I am making the point. He either has scored against minnows (West Indies) or has failed to take India to the win. Just what the Sachin bashers used to talk about his innings all the time.