India Captain Rahul Dravid has asked his star-studded middle order to answer their critics with a run-fest at Trent Bridge. The imposing line up of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman managed just 192 runs between them at Lords though it would be unwise to expect such a poor run of form to continue from all 4 batsmen given their brilliant individual records.
"The only way to answer this criticism is to perform. It's not something to worry, or fear, about. It's life!" He said in response to criticism of his under performing batsmen (including himself!)
"Reputations are built only on performances. You can't have big reputations without performances. You don't expect the young and inexperienced guys to perform because they have not done it before" he said "When you play for India, pressure will always be there because there are expectations and there's a responsibility to do well. Anyway, reputations do not matter. Every game starts at 0-0. It's how you perform that matters."
One suspects that the England bowlers will not get such an easy time in the days ahead.The Chucker
