{"id":14722,"date":"2013-04-18T09:07:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T09:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=14722"},"modified":"2013-04-18T09:07:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T09:07:03","slug":"i-couldnt-have-asked-for-better-rahul-dravid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=14722","title":{"rendered":"I couldn&#8217;t have asked for better: Rahul Dravid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-13588\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rahul-dravid_1322923017_640x640.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" alt=\"rahul-dravid 1322923017 640x640\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rahul-dravid_1322923017_640x640.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rahul-dravid_1322923017_640x640-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals handed over Mumbai Indians their worst defeat of Ipl Season 6 when they beat them by 87 runs at Sawai Man Singh Stadium here on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><br \/>A happy Rajasthan Royals skipper, Rahul Dravid, said that he couldn&#8217;t have asked for better. \u201c<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">It was brilliant. I couldn&#8217;t have asked for better. I wanted our A game to come out, I think our A+ game came out. We discussed it during our meeting to get Yagnik out and try to unsettle the spinners. Demoting myself wasn&#8217;t a big deal as had we lost a wicket early I would have come out to bat. We believe we are a good side and can beat teams. But it&#8217;s early days in the tournament. However, a win like this gives a lot of confidence,\u201d said Dravid.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>Meanwhile, admtting that they were outplayed in all the three departments \u2013 batting, bowling and fielding \u2013 Mumbai Indians captain Ricky Ponting credited Rajathan for the way they batted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u201c<strong>It would be fair to&nbsp;<\/strong>say that we were outplayed in all three departments. The pitch looked very good but it held up a little when we batted. Full credit to RR for the way they batted,\u201d said Ponting, adding that they needed to address a few areas of their game.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><br \/>\u201cWe need to talk about it. I don&#8217;t think the conditions were too bad. We needed to adapt quicker. The way they bowled a lot of slower balls, took the pace off it, they did well. It&#8217;s better to lose these games early in the tournament than later,\u201d said Ponting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><\/p>\n<p> Ajinkya Rahane, who was man-of-the-match, said, \u201c<\/strong>Again I wanted to bat till the last over. We all know that Mumbai is a big team and we did a good job. That&#8217;s my natural game. Even last year I was doing the same thing and will love to continue doing that,\u201d said Rahane, adding that Shane Watson was a crucial player fro Rajasthan. \u201cYagnik and Brad Hodge did their job very well too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> By ISN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-13588\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rahul-dravid_1322923017_640x640.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" alt=\"rahul-dravid 1322923017 640x640\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rahul-dravid_1322923017_640x640.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rahul-dravid_1322923017_640x640-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals handed over Mumbai Indians their worst defeat of Ipl Season 6 when they beat them by 87 runs at Sawai Man Singh Stadium here on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><br \/>A happy Rajasthan Royals skipper, Rahul Dravid, said that he couldn&#8217;t have asked for better. \u201c<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">It was brilliant. I couldn&#8217;t have asked for better. I wanted our A game to come out, I think our A+ game came out. We discussed it during our meeting to get Yagnik out and try to unsettle the spinners. Demoting myself wasn&#8217;t a big deal as had we lost a wicket early I would have come out to bat. We believe we are a good side and can beat teams. But it&#8217;s early days in the tournament. However, a win like this gives a lot of confidence,\u201d said Dravid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I couldn&#039;t have asked for better: Rahul Dravid - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=14722\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I couldn&#039;t have asked for better: Rahul Dravid - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals handed over Mumbai Indians their worst defeat of Ipl Season 6 when they beat them by 87 runs at Sawai Man Singh Stadium here on Wednesday. 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