Former India captain and current head coach Rahul Dravid opened up on making a change in his batting style after being removed from the ODI team in 1998. He was dropped from the team for a year and he utilized the time to work on his batting skills.

Dravid had to adapt to the ODI format and it helped him to make a comeback. From there, he ended up playing over 300 ODI matches for India, including leading Team India in the World Cup 2007.

"Getting dropped from the one-day team in 1998 forced me to introspect, recalibrate and relearn," Dravid was quoted as saying by The New Indian Express as telling Dr. Vivek Mansingh for his book Meaningful Success. 

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“I was out of the one-day team for a year, during which I spent a massive amount of time developing new skills and adapting my game for the one-day arena. It took a lot, beginning with a deeper awareness of the finer aspects of what I lacked and, subsequently, the hard work to improve," he added.

Dravid, who played 344 ODI matches, has scored 10,889 runs; making him 10th most run-getter in the format. He smashed 12 hundred and 83 half-centuries in his 15-year long ODI career.

“I was able to play ten years of one-day cricket after that and score over 10,000 runs in over 300 one-day matches. John Wright noted that: ‘He never made the same mistake twice. He learnt hugely in one-day cricket-which probably was an area he had to work at a little bit more than others. He had been dropped from the Indian one-day team and then went on to come back and have a very good World Cup (in 2003)," Dravid said.

1999 was the best year for Dravid as he scored 1761 runs (his most in a year) in 43 ODIs at an average of 46.34 and a strike rate of 75.16 including 6 hundred and 8 fifties.