Rahul Dravid's speech at the Sir Don Bradman Oration in Canberra

[Cric_is_Life]

Excellent speech, :hatsoff:

[Nova]

Didn't read...but great speech. :hatsoff:

[Manny_Pacquiao]

this guy needs to retire. his speech, much like his batting, is unnecessarily prolonged, and about as dreary as anything i have ever come across. just like he spends a million deliveries to get off the mark, he drones on and on about crap that nobody cares about, with no end in sight. if you cant express your thoughts briefly, you should just piss off. the beauty of speech is gauged by brevity. nobody can be bothered to hear some dullard drone on and on about some crap that is largely irrelevant to modern day circumstance. i read the first paragraph, fell asleep. tried listening to the audio, fell asleep after 5 minutes. its just like when you watch his batting!! watch 30 minutes of dravid playing forward defense to part time bowlers is a proven cure for insomnia. good night everyone. zzz.

[Magneto]

this guy needs to retire. his speech, much like his batting, is unnecessarily prolonged, and about as dreary as anything i have ever come across. just like he spends a million deliveries to get off the mark, he drones on and on about crap that nobody cares about, with no end in sight. if you cant express your thoughts briefly, you should just piss off. the beauty of speech is gauged by brevity. nobody can be bothered to hear some dullard drone on and on about some crap that is largely irrelevant to modern day circumstance. i read the first paragraph, fell asleep. tried listening to the audio, fell asleep after 5 minutes. its just like when you watch his batting!! watch 30 minutes of dravid playing forward defense to part time bowlers is a proven cure for insomnia. good night everyone. zzz.

It's a speech for godssake, it's not a two-line trolling post on a website. And there is no tontee-tontee formula for a speech yet What a delightful speech it was, and you just murdered it ruthlessly with your 6-sec attention span. Aur dekho IPL! And you have done yourself a disservice only! :mad:

[Precambrian]

retire from speeching? I don't mind as long as he walks out to the pitch till we develop someone else capable of saving India's **** when it's on the line for the 1231th time.

[Precambrian]

Good speech btw..

[Manny_Pacquiao]

What a delightful speech it was! :mad:

wow, you read all of it? are you ready to take the test?

[Magneto]

wow' date=' you read all of it? are you ready to take the test?[/quote'] Go back and read it rather than trolling. Hopefully, you'll have some fun too.

[Old guy]

even i read it... took me 20 minutes lol like i said it was a good read and speeches are long lmfao this wasnt ur school speech ... and some stories were so good like people cheering for bradman getting sad when his record was broken these things. i read/heard them for first time i thought it would be just abt cricket it was much more than it

[Sachin=GOD]

Read it. Absolutely wonderful. Must have been written by a very good cricket writer :P

[TheWall]

this guy needs to retire. his speech, much like his batting, is unnecessarily prolonged, and about as dreary as anything i have ever come across. just like he spends a million deliveries to get off the mark, he drones on and on about crap that nobody cares about, with no end in sight. if you cant express your thoughts briefly, you should just piss off. the beauty of speech is gauged by brevity. nobody can be bothered to hear some dullard drone on and on about some crap that is largely irrelevant to modern day circumstance. i read the first paragraph, fell asleep. tried listening to the audio, fell asleep after 5 minutes. its just like when you watch his batting!! watch 30 minutes of dravid playing forward defense to part time bowlers is a proven cure for insomnia. good night everyone. zzz.

I guess ur better off watching TV serials from Balaji tele Films...:winky:

[99.94]

Mad respect.. Do you think he had any help writing it? I'm impressed with the standard of english on this forum (obviously a large percentage of you guys are living in english speaking countries though).

[lovish]

Wowieeeeeee Love is eternal - Albus dumbledore

[Magneto]

Mad respect.. Do you think he had any help writing it? I'm impressed with the standard of english on this forum (obviously a large percentage of you guys are living in english speaking countries though).

We know such Engliss that we will leave the British behind. You see sir, we can talk Engliss, we can walk Engliss, we can laugh Engliss, we can run Engliss, because Engliss is a very funny language :giggle:

[Sachin=GOD]

Mad respect.. Do you think he had any help writing it? I'm impressed with the standard of english on this forum (obviously a large percentage of you guys are living in english speaking countries though).

almost certainly. This looks like a thoroughly professional piece of writing. Also, he himself would be an amateur in writing so if he had written it there might have been mistakes/gaffes so this must have been written by a cricket writer. Most of these so called cricket columnists (like Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Akram etc) take the help of newspaper writers to write their columns.

[Magneto]

almost certainly. This looks like a thoroughly professional piece of writing. Also, he himself would be an amateur in writing so if he had written it there might have been mistakes/gaffes so this must have been written by a cricket writer. Most of these so called cricket columnists (like Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Akram etc) take the help of newspaper writers to write their columns.

That's why one needs professional ghostwriters who can make their mundane words sound magical. But full credit to Rahul for making the speech so interesting; all the points and anecdotes would be his only.

[lovish]

M to thal gya readong whole of it.... Love is eternal - Albus dumbledore

[mishra]

almost certainly. This looks like a thoroughly professional piece of writing. Also, he himself would be an amateur in writing so if he had written it there might have been mistakes/gaffes so this must have been written by a cricket writer. Most of these so called cricket columnists (like Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Akram etc) take the help of newspaper writers to write their columns.

I wouldnt be surprised if he would have asked someone to help or atleast do fillars or correction. Most of high profile speeches are written by someone and delivered by some other one....

[Karan114]

Brilliant speech, especially how he stood up for the image of Indian cricket. Just because the Pawars, Srinivisans etc. behave in a certain way it doesn't mean the entire cricketing structure in the country should be tarred with the same brush.

[Raghav_12]

almost certainly. This looks like a thoroughly professional piece of writing. Also, he himself would be an amateur in writing so if he had written it there might have been mistakes/gaffes so this must have been written by a cricket writer. Most of these so called cricket columnists (like Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Akram etc) take the help of newspaper writers to write their columns.

I think he would have taken some hellp with editing etc, but theme of the speech and majority of content would have been his only. It is difficult to deliver a speech very authoritatively and passionately, the way he did, if it is not your own. In any case Rahul is very fond of reading and is kinda bookworm. He comes across as a very suave person with good command on what he speaks. This whole image goes along very well and gets re-inforced with his on-field conduct. Not many players in cricketing world would possess such skills.