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Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly feels his former teammate Rahul Dravid has all the attributes for becoming successful in his current stint as the Indian cricket team's head coach.
Ganguly believes Dravid's "intense, meticulous and professional" attitude are just the ingredients a coach needs to be successful in the high-pressure India job.
"He (Dravid) is as intense, as meticulous and as professional as he was during his playing days," the former India captain said on the sidelines of a promotional event on Saturday.
"The only difference is that now he does not have to bat at no.3 for India which I feel was harder since he had to face the best bowlers of the world which he also did exceptionally well for a long period of time," he added.
"As a coach also he (Dravid) will do a remarkable job as he is honest and he has the talent," Ganguly said.
Being the BCCI chief, Ganguly was in instrumental in roping in Dravid as India coach, replacing Ravi Shastri after the T20 World Cup last year.
"He will make mistakes as everybody does but as long as you try doing the right things you will achieve success more than others," Ganguly said.
The BCCI top official, however, refused to compare Dravid with his predecessor Ravi Shastri.
"They are different people with different personalities. One is at you all the time which is his strength while the other will quietly do his job inspite of being one of the greatest of all time," Ganguly said.
"No two people will be successful the same way," former India captain concluded.
is the fourth highest run-getter in Test cricket with 13,288 runs from 286 innings of 164 matches at an impressive average of 52.31.
The middle-order batsman was also a gun fielder and holds the record of most number of catches (210) in the outfield in the longest format.
He was bestowed with the Arjuna award -- country's second highest sporting honour --- in 1998, while he received the country's second and third highest civilian honour Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan in 2004 and 2013 respectively. He was also the recipient of the ICC Cricketer of the Year award in 2004.
