3 Ideas of Sachin Tendulkar that changed Indian cricket

#2 Deciding to play Rahul Dravid at number 3 and Sourav Ganguly at number 5

Rahul Dravid scored over 10,000 runs, batting at number 3.

Batting at number 3, Rahul Dravid served Indian cricket for so many years. He occupied the role so intensively that he was called "The Wall" for his splendid business, batting at the certain position.

When Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid made their Test debut in England in the year 1996, they were made to play at the third and fifth positions respectively.

At the start of his second Test series (against South Africa at home) as captain, Sachin Tendulkar thought that Dravid's calmness at the start of his innings and Sourav's free-flowing batting style are more suitable for the team if they interchanged their batting positions.

Despite the fact that till then, Sourav and Dravid had an average of 100.50 and 56.75 at third and fifth position respectively, Tendulkar executed his idea in the first two Tests against South Africa.

Though the duo got back to their initial positions for the final Test and the first two Tests of the following three-match Test series in South Africa, they were up for the plan from the third Test, and that went on blossoming to serve Indian cricket for one and a half decade.