Dravid’s ‘whole range of skills’ could boost this year’s World Cup

As a coach and as someone who loves the game of cricket, I want to see this format flourish and do well.” This year’s World Cup games in India will be held in different Dravid’s ‘full range of skills can be promoted at venues.

Dravid, who played 344 ODI matches in his 15-year career, is hopeful that the format will continue to be played and given importance.

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Dravid’s ‘whole range of skills’ could boost this year’s World Cup

“The size of the ground will be different. When we go to Bengaluru or when we go to Delhi we will probably play on a relatively bigger ground here in Chennai. Each venue will be different, we will just have to assess and see what kind of it it is.

“I don’t think this World Cup will be decided by whether you read the pitch correctly or not, it will be decided by how you play on those pitches.

The statistics highlight this trend. Since the 2019 World Cup, the full members have played a total of 250 ODIs ahead of the England-New Zealand opener on Thursday. The corresponding number in the previous World Cup cycle (2015 – 2019) was 429. In fact, for the first time, more T20Is were played than ODIs, with a total of 367 T20Is in the last four years.

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The T20 format is being added more to the cricket calendar

Obviously, with more and more T20 cricket being added to the calendar, this will probably make it difficult to have the same number of ODI games between the 2015 and 2019 calendars as you are used to seeing. I don’t think we will ever go back to those days but I sincerely hope that we still continue to value and play this format…” Dravid