"He deserved honesty and clarity." Rahul Dravid dead-bats criticism from Wriddhiman Saha who was urged to quit his Test career.
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00:00I'm actually not hurt at all. I have a deep respect for
00:03Riddhiman Saha and his achievements and his contribution to Indian cricket. I think he deserved
00:10Honesty and he deserved clarity
00:13And I didn't want him to hear
00:16About it, you know from the media
00:30These are conversations that you know, I constantly have with players
00:39And I'm not hurt about it at all. When you have
00:43Difficult conversations with people and sometimes you have to have them with players
00:48You don't expect them to always agree with you or like with you, but that doesn't mean you brush it under the carpet
00:53I truly believe in
00:55Having those conversations before every playing XI is picked even now either me or Rohit will speak to the guys who are not playing
01:01And be open to answer questions as to why they're not playing
01:04I think it's natural for players at times to get upset and to
01:09And to feel hurt. I was just trying to just trying to convey
01:14We have only three test matches this year
01:17you know and
01:18With Rishabh Pant having established himself as our number one choice wicketkeeper
01:23You know, the idea was to say that we were looking to groom a younger wicketkeeper
01:28With only three test matches this year
01:29The easiest thing for me is to not have these conversations or not speak to players about it
01:33And that's not what that's not who I am
01:35And that's not what I'm gonna do and I don't expect them to like it or like me
01:39But at some stage, you know
01:41I hope they'll at least respect the fact that I was able to front up and and have these conversations with them