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T20 World Cup 2024 Final Match: Team India under Rohit Sharma and his captaincy is very close to writing its name in history forever. It is just a matter of a few hours and then this team can do what everyone is eagerly waiting for. For the last 11 years, not only the Indian cricket team or the BCCI but more than 130 crore people have been waiting for the trophy. The wait can end today at the Kensington Oval ground in Bridgetown, Barbados, thousands of miles away from India. Although the wait is 11 years for everyone, but for Team India's head coach Rahul Dravid, this wait is 17 years long and on his last day with Team India, he can wash away and end the centuries-old stain.
About two and a half years ago, Rahul Dravid re-entered Team India's dressing room. After a 10-year retirement from international cricket in 2011, Dravid returned here in 2021 and this time there were hopes on him to lead the team to the title. He came close twice in the last one year but lost to Australia in the final both times. The same Australia that stopped Team India from winning the World Cup title 21 years ago, when Dravid was the vice-captain of Team India. Perhaps fate did not approve of him ending Team India's wait by winning the World Test Championship or the ODI World Cup.
Will luck be on your side this time?
Dravid's tenure with Team India ended with the end of the ODI World Cup 2023 but the BCCI extended it till the T20 World Cup 2024. Before the World Cup, Dravid had also made it clear that he would end his journey with this World Cup. Now see the game of fate that Dravid's last innings with Team India will end on the same ground where his captaincy ended 17 years ago, that too with a broken heart and deep wounds.
Rahul Dravid was the captain of Team India in the 2007 World Cup when the tournament was held in the West Indies. Indian cricket fans can never forget that World Cup because it hurt their hearts and minds a lot. Team India had to face a humiliating defeat in the group stage itself. Stones were pelted at the houses of star cricketers and processions were taken out on the streets against them. This defeat was sad for the fans but for the players, the pain of defeat was accompanied by such behavior of the fans.
Will Dravid have a happy ending now?
After this, Dravid left the captaincy of Team India and later refused to participate in the first T20 World Cup. He was not even a part of the Indian team that won the World Cup in 2011. After seeing and missing so much, if Dravid's fate once again gives him a chance to finish the West Indies tour with Team India, then something good will be written, at least everyone hopes so. So as special as the date of June 29 at Kensington Oval is for Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, perhaps it is even more special for Rahul Dravid. He can leave the 17-year-old sorrow behind forever and move forward happily.