** Rahul Dravid **

Rahul Dhravid has been dropped from the Indian One day team.

Yes - agreed that there are many young blokes knocking at the doors and as a means of providing opportunity to them, a few non performing players need to be dropped.

Yes, Dhravid was not giving the performance that we was expected from him during the recently concluded Australian series. But shouldn't the standard of the team that we played against be considered? We lost the serios 4-2 and how many players performed well in the series?

I am not for stopping from dropping players who dont perform. But, dropping a player of Dhravid's class based on just 5 games is not right !! Sachin and Dhravid are the two best players in terms of dedication, work ethics, class, standard, calibre and what not!! Well, even if Dhravid has to be dropped - there is a decent way that this issue could be handled with due respect to the commitment that Dhravid has shown to the Indian cricket so far. Its a shame to the BCCI and the selection committee to have handled Dhravid the way they have done now. But, afterall what matters.... people in the selection committee always get paid irrespective of the team's performance; they afterall discuss things in five star hotels on the revenue that was generated due to the efforts of classic players like Dhravid; and they are not the one who are on the ground to battle things out !! Why should they bother about standard ??