Rahul Dravid often talks about the number of times leading players like him and Sachin Tendulkar have failed. If 50 is a benchmark for success, and that is a batting average that the best aspire to have, then between them they managed it 218 times; out of 615 innings. So, admittedly, by a fairly high bar set, they failed 397 times. And yet, they are regarded as legends and that is because they made the good times count. Life isn’t measured a failure at a time but over a career and the 218 successes counted for much more than the 397 failures!
