When Virender Sehwag was out playing an across-the-line aggressive shot for the second time in the Test on Saturday, a debate was triggered. Often it is said that players like Sehwag shouldn’t tamper with their style of play regardless of the match situation. Earlier, another natural strokemaker Yuvraj Singh, too, had gone for an expansive drive to a ball pitched outside the off stump and was caught in the slips. Since the need of the hour for India was to curb the risky shots and play straight, questions were asked if ‘playing the natural game’ was always an irrevocable adage with no exceptions.
On Sunday, the query was put to Rahul Dravid and it induced a firm ‘No’. “You have got to play according to the situation. That is what great players have done over the years. They read the situation, they play according to the wicket and the conditions, and that’s how people I have admired and I have watched over the years played,” he said.
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