From ecstasy to agony, Rahul Dravid sees it all again

MUMBAI: It was a rare moment, the kind of which you wouldn't associate with a 'gentleman cricketer' like Rahul Dravid. On Sunday night at the Wankhede Stadium, however, Dravid showed that even the 'good guys' have emotions and can lose the plot once in a while.
As soon as Mumbai Indians' Aditya Tare smashed a James Faulkner full toss into the crowd to seal the last remaining playoff spot for the defending champs, a disgusted Dravid, sitting in the Rajasthan Royals dug-out as the team mentor, flung his cap to the ground.
For a second, the great cricketer forgot his poise and his pent up emotions came bursting out.
Dravid had reasons to feel devastated. Just one ball earlier, he and his team were celebrating survival by a whisker.
MI, everyone felt, were one run short of the 190-run target they needed to get to in 14.3 overs, being 189/5 when Ambati Rayudu was run out. It soon emerged though, that the hosts had another ball to play, in which they needed a boundary, and they eventually went through.
After the heart-breaking loss, Dravid conceded it was one of the best matches he had been part of.
"We thought we had won the game at one stage. Then, we still had to bowl a ball and they hit the boundary so you can just imagine the emotions. There was sheer disappointment in their camp, joy in our camp and suddenly a ball later that's completely reversed. So for sheer emotion and drama, I think this was probably one of the best games of cricket I've been involved in. It's just disappointing that I happened to be on the wrong side of the result," he said.
Dravid's dejection stemmed from the way RR's bowlers allowed Corey Anderson and Ambati Rayudu to add 82 in 31 balls to script the incredible victory for MI.
"At that stage, if you bowl a couple of seven, eight-run overs or 10-run overs, the game quickly goes out of hand. But they kept getting that 15, 16-run over."