Rahul Dravid seemed to have given up hope for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL when he said that the team would "play for pride" in their remaining six matches. At the bottom of the eight-team double-leg round-robin tournament with four points, Royal Challengers need to win at least five of the games to have any chance of making the semi-finals. It is indeed a tough ask for a team which is not only affected by poor performances on the field but bothered as much by developments off it.A dejected Rahul Dravid blamed poor batting for his team's ordinary show in the ongoing IPL but chose to keep mum on team owner Vijay Mallya's criticism of their team selection decisions.
"That is true that we have not been able to click. It is disappointing. Batting has been an area of concern," Dravid said at the post match media-meet.
"I do not want to speak publicly on the (Mallya's) comments. Selection and performance are two different things and people have to perform so that the team gets on to the winning track. I will speak at an appropriate forum," he said when scribes asked him about Mallya's criticism.
"Please do not ask such questions. I do not want to comment on those things," he added.
Dravid also said all their efforts to get a winning combination have proved futile so far.
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