Rahul Dravid added that coaches could be sacked at any time because the job was like that
Former India cricket captain Rahul Dravid on Monday weighed down on the captain-coach saga that eventually resulted in Anil Kumble's exit from the Indian cricket team.
Speaking during Bangalore Literature Festival, Dravid, who is the India A coach and the overseas batting consultant, said that players were more powerful than coaches, and any power struggle was eventually in the favour of the players.
Kumble stepped down immediately after the Champions Trophy in June after his partnership with Kohli became "untenable." Ahead of that tournament, reports of Kohli telling BCCI about players being uncomfortable with Kumble's "overbearing" ways surfaced.
"At the end of the day, I don't know the specifics of that particular issue, but it shouldn't have got played out in the way that it did. I think the whole thing got played out in the media which is very, very unfortunate for Anil and not fair on him at all," Dravid said while speaking to ESPNCricinfo.
That the coaching job came with an inherent risk of a sack wasn't lost on Dravid. "See, coaches get sacked. The first thing you know when you stop playing and become a coach is that some day you are going to get sacked," he said. "That's the reality.
"As an India A and Under-19 coach, I know that someday I'm going to get the boot. Some football managers get sacked after two games, so that's the reality. Players are more powerful than coaches. We know that because we were more powerful than coaches when we played."
When there was a suggestion that players had become too powerful, Dravid said players had little say in their journey to superstardom. "They became heroes thanks to people like you [anchors, journalists], television asking for interviews, writing books about them. It's the game that has made them heroes.
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