Sachin R. Tendulkar & Rahul Dravid

I remember those days, more than 5 years back, when i used to appreciate Dravid, Mr. Wall, a lot. I was a big fan of Dravid. He was and is a class player for sure. Sachin is the God of Cricket and anything talking about him would be less. Those were the days when people used to appreciate the team and the members of the team for what they were good at.
Of late, i have been hearing a lot about something like...Dravid not getting recognition as that of sachin. Dravid always gets overshadowed by Sachin. Media covers dravid more than Sachin. There are more no. of wins for India, when dravid scores century than when sachin scores century. Media covered a lot when sachin completed 20 Years in crecketing career and they didn't, when Dravid scored a century and brought India in a good position from the worst position just the other day. Where is it coming from? Why are we linking dravid with sachin for every event, especially when we see that Dravid is not getting much appreciation? They are two good players, playing there bit for themselves and the country. I would never think that, they would have ever felt of being in competition with each other. But, what are we doing? We are saying that sachin is the reason for Dravid not being as famous as he could have been.Hearing all this a lot, to be frank, my support for dravid has decreased, because, to me both were and are the great player. But, when you keep saying that because of one great player, the other great player is not getting recognition and all, it actually decreases the popularity of the other great player.
I would request you guys to please get out of this mindset. Look at the root cause. It's not like dravid is not getting much recognition because of Sachin being there. What i feel is, it's the media fault to an extent. But, you don't always agree to media, for whatever they say. So, listen to media and have your opinion with you. I also believe that, to an extent it's the fault of IPL as well. You know, the IPL brought in the regionalism feeling in the Cricket and also in the People attached with cricket. Cricket, which used to unite the nation. Nobody ever wanted to know, from which region Dravid or Sachin belong. We just knew that they are Indian, playing for India. I loved it, Cricket brought the nation together. But, after the IPL, we have been sparked with the feeling of regionalism. Delhi folks would favour Shehwag, Karnataka folks would favour Dravid or Kumble and so on.
I think, we should respect both the players. We should respect all the players, whatever region they belong to. Don't start favouring dravid a lot at the favour cost of sachin, because of Media or the IPL fault. And please, don't start finding out faults in sachin, just to show that dravid is better than sachin for so and so thing. In someone, your extreme favour for dravid at sachin's cost might reduce the favour for dravid. Let's take them as the national player, playing for nation. Either sachin does well or dravid, if the Country wins, we win. That's all.

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