Had he not received a phone call from India skipper Rohit Sharma, requesting him to continue after the ODI World Cup final defeat, Rahul Dravid wouldn’t have been a part of history, the outgoing head coach revealed in his farewell speech to the team after it was crowned T20 world champion here.

Dravid’s tenure had ended with the ODI World Cup, but the coaching staff got an extension till the end of the T20 World Cup that concluded on Saturday.