Rohit Sharma's thank you note to Rahul Dravid: You came at our level leaving your accomplishments at the door
T20 World Cup-winning skipper Rohit Sharma has penned an emotional farewell note to the team's former head coach Rahul Dravid, expressing «gratitude» for his man-management skills and for leaving his baggage of stardom outside the dressing room. Dravid, following a nearly three-year long stint as head coach, stepped down at the end of India's title-winning T20 World Cup campaign in the West Indies last month.
«My wife (Ritika Sajdeh) refers to you as my work wife and I am lucky to get to call you that too,» the current skipper wrote about his first international captain on his Instagram page.
Rohit's tribute was also an indicator of how the player-coach equation works in the Indian dressing room.
«I have been trying to find the right words to properly express my feelings on this but I'm not sure I ever will,» the Indian skipper, not known to be overtly emotional, wrote.
«You are an absolute stalwart of this game but you left all of your accolades and achievements at the door and walked in as our coach and came on a level where we all felt comfortable enough to say just about anything to you.
»That is your gift, your humility and your love for this game even after all this time," Rohit wrote.
Rohit, who made his senior team debut in 2007 in Dublin, with Dravid as captain, wrote how he looked up to him during his formative years as a player.
Dravid had recently revealed that it was Rohit whose phone call stopped him from resigning after the Indians lost in the final of the ODI World Cup last year.
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