India’s captain Rahul “the Wall” Dravid will be sitting out the next match against Sri Lanka to rest. He experienced leg cramps in the 5th game of the series, and wants to be in the best possible shape for game 7. The team, who already clinched the series of 7 one-day matches, has been using the opportunity to play its rookies, and was not overly concerned about the 5th game loss.

“You don’t always find yourself in such a situation when you can experiment with the team against a very good opponent who will be coming at you all guns blazing,” the captain told the Hindustan Times.

“So when we got the opportunity we wanted to capitalise on that.

“That does not mean we are not playing to win. We would have liked to win this series 7-0, and now we want to win 6-1.

“But we also won’t mind if the final result of the series is 4-3, if the boys put up a performance like the way they did at Ahmedabad,” Dravid added.

They came on strong in the first 4 games with a strong attitude and it got them far. Now it seems as if they really are ready to concede the next 3 games, and with an attitude that they’ve done enough already, that will probably be the case. Of course, Dravid’s and Tendulkar’s stats will be preserved as they’ll be sitting the next game out…

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