Sachin Tendulkar's and Sourav Ganguly's restaurants had been attacked, Zaheer Khan's house stoned, a wall of MS Dhoni's house broken. In the Caribbean, as India still had to spend a couple of days before their flight back home, most players secluded themselves. Virender Sehwag shut himself in his room, didn't allow even the housekeeping staff to clean his room, and watched the TV show 'Prison Break' for endless hours.
It's then that Rahul Dravid approached youngsters Dhoni and Irfan Pathan. "Look, we are all upset. Chalo, let's go for a movie."
The startled youngsters accompanied Dravid and were told,"Look, yes, we lost the World Cup. We all wanted to make a big difference. But this is not the end of it. Life is much bigger. We will come back tomorrow," Pathan shared Dravid's words that have stuck in his mind forever.
There was anger from cricket fans, especially directed at him for he was the captain and had taken the decision to push Sachin Tendulkar down to No.4 - but he wasn't going into hiding. Days after he got back to India, while the World Cup was still on in the West Indies, Dravid tooka two-day trip with his family to Kovalam beach in Kerala. A famous picture still pops up now on the internet. Barechested, clad in a long aqua-blue towel, Dravid can be seen near the water, oblivious to the people around.
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