When Rahul Dravid was India’s captain, he often adopted an innovative approach to captaincy, as he experimented quite a bit with the playing XI and team combination. Dravid was someone who belonged to the creative school of rotating the players and giving everyone a go in order to fully test the capabilities and skills of a player on the big stage.

Even during the IPL as mentor of Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Daredevils, Dravid was witnessed backing all his players by giving them a significant amount of games in order to provide everyone with a fair chance.

Now for the India A and Under 19 teams, Dravid is using the very same approach which he did in the past. To ensure the India Colts have a rock solid base for next year’s U-19 World Cup, Dravid is testing as many players as possible.

Recently, in a five-match youth ODI series against England A, India A stood victorious by a margin of 3-1. With the Tests to follow, Dravid has chosen completely fresh squad which doesn’t have even a single member of that ODI squad.

The former batting icon signified the importance of doing so in a media interaction as he said:

“There is an effort to try and get a lot more boys involved. In a sense, rotation builds healthy competition; lets everyone know that they cannot take their places for granted. In the future, the opportunities that they get, more than I would say selection will be based on their performances.”