Rohit Sharma and his captained Team India are very close to writing their name in history forever. It is just a matter of a few hours and then this team can do what everyone is eagerly waiting for. For the last 11 years, not only the Indian cricket team or the BCCI, but more than 130 crore people are waiting for a trophy. This wait can end on the night of Saturday 29 June at the Kensington Oval ground in Bridgetown, Barbados, thousands of miles away from India. Although for everyone this wait is for the last 11 years, but for Team India's head coach Rahul Dravid this wait is 17 years long and on his last day with Team India, he can end it as well as wash away the years old stain.

About two and a half years ago, Rahul Dravid again entered the dressing room of Team India. 10 years after retiring from international cricket in 2011, Dravid returned here again in 2021 and this time he had the burden of expectations of making the team a champion. In the last one year, he came close to it twice but on both occasions had to face defeat in the final to Australia. The same Australia, which stopped Team India from winning the title in the World Cup 21 years ago, when Dravid was the vice-captain of Team India.

Perhaps fate did not approve of him ending Team India's wait by winning the World Test Championship or the ODI World Cup.

Will luck be fully on your side this time?

With the end of the ODI World Cup 2023, Dravid's tenure with Team India ended but the BCCI extended it till the T20 World Cup 2024. Then just before the World Cup, Dravid also made it clear that he would end his journey with this World Cup. Now see the game of fate that Dravid's last journey with Team India will end on the same ground where his captaincy era ended 17 years ago, that too with a broken heart and a deep stain.

Rahul Dravid was the captain of Team India in the 2007 World Cup, when the tournament was held in the West Indies. Indian cricket fans can never forget that World Cup because it hurt their hearts and minds deeply. Team India had to face a humiliating defeat in the group stage itself. Stones were pelted at the houses of star cricketers, processions were taken out on the streets against them. There was taunting everywhere. This defeat was painful for the fans, but for the players, along with the pain of defeat, such behavior of the fans was also hurtful.

Will Dravid have a happy ending now?

After this, Dravid left the captaincy of Team India and then refused to participate in the first T20 World Cup. He was not even a part of the Team India that won the World Cup in 2011. After seeing and missing so much, if Dravid's fate is once again giving him a chance to end his journey with Team India in the West Indies, then something good must be written, at least everyone will have this hope. That is why as special as the date of 29 June at Kensington Oval will be for Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, perhaps it will be more special for Rahul Dravid than that.

He can leave behind the 17-year-old sorrow forever and move forward with happiness.