Rahul Dravid: Recently, Rahul Dravid's tenure as the head coach of Team India ended. Under his guidance, the Indian team managed to win the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 played in the USA and West Indies. Apart from this, last year, under the leadership of Rohit Sharma, India reached the final of the 2023 World Cup.

In such a situation, it would not be wrong to say that Dravid took this team to new heights of success. However, despite having such a successful career as the coach of the national team, Rahul Dravid regretted one thing. Recently, he told that he regrets not winning the Test series against South Africa at home. Let us know in detail what he has said on this.

“That was my most difficult time…”

There were a lot of expectations from Rahul Dravid, who took over as the head coach of the Indian cricket team in the year 2021. The former great batsman was largely successful in living up to all those expectations. However, this legend regrets not winning the Test series against South Africa in 2021. In fact, during a recent conversation with Star Sports, he told that this was the worst time of his career.

“If you ask me what was my toughest time, I would say the South Africa Test series at the beginning of my career. We had won the first Test at Centurion and we had to win the second and third Tests.”

He further said in his statement,

“As you know, India has not won a single Test series in South Africa till date. In such a situation, we had a golden opportunity to change history in that series. Some of our seniors were not present in the team. Rohit Sharma was not playing due to injury. This was a difficult time for me as a coach. I got to learn a lot from this.”

The result of the series was something like this

In the year 2021, Team India went on a tour of South Africa. Three Test and three ODI series were played between the two teams. If we talk about the Test series, India won the first Test played in Centurion by 113 runs under the leadership of Virat Kohli. In the second Test, the Indian team under the captaincy of KL Rahul lost by 7 wickets. In the third Test which was played in Cape Town, Team India under the leadership of Virat had to face defeat by 7 wickets.