India, May 15 -- Former India head coach Rahul Dravid disagrees with his successor Gautam Gambhir's stance on eradicating superstar culture from Indian cricket. Gambhir has, on several occasions, said that individual achievements should no longer be celebrated and that team success must be placed above everything else. While there is nothing wrong with his vision, Dravid feels individual success is a building block of the bigger goal.

Dravid played in an era that had no shortage of superstars in Indian cricket. He, along with Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman and Virender Sehwag, formed the famed core that took Indian cricket to unprecedented heights. While that team did not win as many trophies as the current unit, it remains...