The article digs through the cricket rumours that shroud Dravid’s future relation with Royal Challengers after Mallya’s direct verbal attack on the team captain.

Royal Challengers top boss Vijay Mallya’s washing dirty linen in the public has baffled all!  With seven defeats in nine matches, Mallya’s cricket team managed to secure the bottom most position at the cricket score table at the IPL. Cricket rumours were making their customary rounds for quite some times; the issue was the rift between the team owner and the captain of the cricket team. All speculations came to an end with Mallya’s frank confession that he was not at all happy with his team’s performance. And he held Dravid and the CEO Charu Sharma directly responsible for this Royal Challenger debacle. Charu Sharma was ultimately handed the pink slip. “I had my own list (of players) but the fact is Rahul Dravid and Charu Sharma had their own list and at the end of the day, I decided to take the back seat,” was all that Mallya could offer in a way of explanation for the miserable cricket score that his team fared in the IPL.

As the cricket rumours go: the liquor baron had a different design for his dream cricket team in his mind. But Dravid and Sharma pushed him into something else. He revealed that Sharma and Dravid stood for each other through the selection process and discouraged him bid for the players of his choice. Even the second auction went useless, where Sharma in the absence of Dravid held him back from buying the cricketers of his choice.

When Dravid decided to maintain a respectable silence, those who love this sincere cricket player are furious and think a resignation will be the appropriate answer after Mallya has made clear who the boss is. Now that Sharma has been replaced by Brijesh Patel, the cricket rumours are spreading about the next possible move of Dravid.

According to the cricket experts, as the captain, Dravid is of course responsible for the poor performance of his cricket team, but Mallya’s public bitching of Dravid is in no way acceptable. It is not going to do any good for Mallya or improve the cricket score for his team; this kind of public thrashing will only bring down the morale of the players and the team will continue to languish at the bottom.

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