Former India captain Rahul Dravid has said that the key to handling disappointments during his career was because he didn’t ponder much over past performances and that helped him prepare for what lay ahead.
Dravid also spoke about the reason for not continuing with India captaincy, reasoning that he gave up leadership of the team in 2007 because stopped enjoying it.
In an interview with Ayaz Memon on the YouTube channel TRUTHtalks, Dravid reflected on his decision to give up India captaincy despite leading the team to a Test series win in England not too long before that.
“I just wasn’t enjoying it,” said Dravid. “Maybe it was because I’d played a lot, there was a lot happening. At that point of time I just stopped enjoying leadership. I didn’t see the captaincy of India as my right. I wanted to do it if I felt I could really devote 100% of my time and energy, and have that mental space to be able to do it well. When I felt that that wasn’t there, I knew…