Poor Dravid --

Its sad that Bangalore Royal Challenge team is last in the IPL points table and its even more bad that the off field controversies have taken to the front page news item.

Its very sad that a player of Dravid's caliber should be in the center of the storm for non cricketing aspects. I am sure that he will not lead or get associated with the Banglore Royal Challenge team for the next years IPL tournament. As a cricketer myself can understand how painful it could be for Dravid when the team management let you and your team down during the course of the tournament. All this could have been sorted out with in, rather than letting things goes out in the open. This is not going to do any good for the teams performance in the future games. After all cricket is a game and not business and loosing is part of the sport.

Its very unprofessional for Mallya such a successful business man to rock his own team in the middle of the tournament and come out with such unsportive statements. Its true that any body will get frustrated to see his team loose all the time and find reasons for the defeat rather than fight to perform better but making dravid a scape goat here is not going help him either.

I fail to understand why he should have agreed to the list of players dravid selected, if he is not happy with the list and knowledgeable enough to pick the list of his own, who stopped him ?? After all he is funding the team and owns the team. It does not reflect good on the successful business man and also shows how he would deal with his core teams on failure. Cricket is not truly business, its a sport. Few teams get to winning ways quicker and few take some time.

I think Mallya can learn a few things from the Mumbai Indians team owners (Mukesh Ambani) on how to handle failures.