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Rahul Dravid’s son Samit hits match-winning knock in Gopalan Cricket Challenge Cup Under-12 match

Samit Dravid is 9-year-old who smashed an unbeaten 77.

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Steven Smith with Samit (centre) and Anvay (right). Photo Courtesy – Facebook.

Rahul Dravid’s eldest son Samit has taken no time in replicating his father, when he hit a match-winning 77 for his school — Mallya Aditi International School against New Horizon Public School in a Gopalan Cricket Challenge Cup Under-12 match. According to OneIndia, Samit hit an unbeaten 77 in his side’s total of 210 in 16 overs. Luckily for Samit’s team, New Horizon Public School could not achieve the target and were restricted to 96 in 16 overs. Thus losing by 114-run victory. Samit was involved in a partnership with Johann, who top scored for Mallya Aditi International with 91. Samit turns 10 on October 11.

Dravid has two sons — Samit and Anvay. Dravid has been Indian cricket’s 911. In every crisis situation, including jobs other team members did not want to do, he was the go-to man. He was India’s quiet saviour in the dressing room as much he was the rescuer out in the middle — a quintessential team man. Through his career Dravid had found many of his exploits getting overshadowed by a team-mate. On his Test debut alongside Sourav Ganguly at Lord’s in 1996, his innings of 95 was eclipsed by Ganguly’s 131; in the following Test, he got 84, but hundreds by Tendulkar and Ganguly stole the limelight. When he scored his first One-Day International (ODIs) in 1997, Saeed Anwar’s record 194 stole the thunder. In the epic 2001 Kolkata Test against Australia, which India won in Riplesque fashion afterfollowing 274 behind, Dravid’s 180 was outshone by VVS Laxman’s 281.

Dravid was a batting grammarian who stayed committed to the tenets of the coaching manuals. Even though he scored 10,000 runs in ODIS, he kept faith with orthodox methodology. “Dravid was akin to an elegant exposition of mathematical arguments or grammatical structures, timeless in significance, enjoyable to the connoisseurs of the subject,” as Arunabha Sengupta succinctly put it.

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