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Rahul Dravid

Full Name
Rahul Sharad Dravid
Born
11-01-1973 Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Current Age
45 years old
Major Teams
India, Asian Cricket Council XI, ICC World XI, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Rajasthan Royals
Batting Style
Right-hand bat
Bowling Style
Off-break
Rahul Dravid

Photos: Rahul Dravid

  • APJ Abdul Kalam with Indian cricketers

    APJ Abdul Kalam with Indian cricketers

  • India win the Adelaide Test

    India win the Adelaide Test

  • PHOTO: ‘Grateful’ Virat Kohli explains how dreams come true with a throwback image

    PHOTO: ‘Grateful’ Virat Kohli explains how dreams come true with a throwback image

  • Photo: Virat Kohli remembers old times with Rahul Dravid

    Photo: Virat Kohli remembers old times with Rahul Dravid

Videos: Rahul Dravid

  • VIDEO: Press Conference of victorious India Under-19 World Cup team in Mumbai

    VIDEO: Press Conference of victorious India Under-19 World Cup team in Mumbai

  • VIDEO: India U-19 team rub cake on Rahul Dravid’s face on his 45th birthday

    VIDEO: India U-19 team rub cake on Rahul Dravid’s face on his 45th birthday

  • Video: Rahul Dravid takes India A for day out

    Video: Rahul Dravid takes India A for day out

  • Watch ‘genius’ Rahul Dravid’s masterstroke to get rid of Kamran Akmal

    Watch ‘genius’ Rahul Dravid’s masterstroke to get rid of Kamran Akmal

Rahul Dravid Biography

Rahul 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 187 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.

He batted with the patience of a monk: in India’s win at Adelaide in 2003 he batted 835 minutes in the Test while scoring 233 and 72 not out. Four months later at Rawalpindi, he batted 740 minutes for his 270 to help India win the series against Pakistan.

The end of his cricketing career was tragic. After three hugely successful series, Dravid had one poor series in Australia in 2011-12. The stinging criticism through the series was too much for a man who lived his life with dignity. He announced his retirement and left without any fanfare that has one has come to expect in the modern era. Even in retirement, he went an unsung hero.

Dravids’s volume of work over a 16-year period in Tests and ODIs combined is staggering: 508 matches, 24,177 runs, 48 hundreds and 396 catches. He was arguably the best Indian batsman after Sachin Tendulkar.

Dravid is universally acknowledged as one of the finest and most respected ambassadors of the game. The invite to deliver the Sir Bradman Oration, which he did with aplomb, underlined the cerebral side of his persona.

Rahul Dravid is an ornament to cricket.

H Natarajan

Rahul Dravid Batting & Fielding Averages

Career M In R NO HS Avg BF SR 100s 50s 4s 6s Ct St
Test 164 286 13288 32 270 52.31 31260 42.50 36 63 1654 21 210 0
ODIs 344 318 10889 40 153 39.16 15285 71.23 12 83 950 42 196 14
T20s 1 1 31 0 31* 31.00 21 147.6 0 0 0 3 -- --
World Cup 22 21 860 7 145 61.42 1147 74.97 2 6 76 3 17 1

Rahul Dravid Bowling Averages

Career M B R W Avg EC SR 5WI 10WM BBI BBM
Test 164 120 39 1 39.00 1.950 120 0 0 1/16 1/16
ODIs 344 186 170 4 42.50 5.483 46.50 0 0 2/43 2/43
T20s 1 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
World Cup 22 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 2/43

Rahul Dravid Career statistics

Test Debut

England v India at Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood, June 20, 1996

Last Test

Australia v India at Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, January 24, 2012

ODI Debut

India v Sri Lanka at The Padang, Singapore, April 3, 1996

Last ODI

England v India at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, September 16, 2011

T20 Debut

England v India at Old Trafford, Manchester, August 31, 2011

Last T20

England v India at Old Trafford, Manchester, August 31, 2011

News ON Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble turn down BJP’s offer to stand in assembly polls

BJP tried to rope in the Karnataka born Dravid and Kumble to gain the support of the youth of the state of the assembly polls.

Rahul Dravid says “if you vote, democracy wins” ahead of Karnataka elections

State election officials had earlier announced Rahul Dravid as ambassador and icon for May 12 Karnataka assembly polls to boost voter ...

Rahul Dravid to be face of Karnataka Elections’ awareness campaign

Rahul Dravid will urge the people of Karnataka to vote in the state assembly elections on May 12.

IPL 2018: Shubman Gill eager to follow Rahul Dravid’s advice for Kolkata Knight Riders

With a base price of INR 20 lakhs, Gill underwent the hammer during IPL 2018 auctions and snatched a contract worth INR 1.8 crore from KKR.

U-19 star Shivam Mavi keen to follow Rahul Dravid’s advice

"Rahul Sir told us that 'money will keep flowing in but just remember what is it that has helped you earn so much money and focus on ...

Rahul Dravid registers FIR against chit fund company

Dravid and his family had invested INR 35 crores but managed to receive just INR 20 crores.

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Features ON Rahul Dravid

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    Sourav Ganguly, in his book A Century Is Not Enough, listed down his top five batting performances he has seen from Indian batsmen.

    Praise Rahul Dravid, not the Wall or the Gentleman or the Ultimate Teamman

    The social media timeline buzzed about Dravid being a true gentleman. What’s a false gentleman anyway?

    Infographic, ICC U-19 World Cup 2018: India, Australia’s road to the final

    The two teams who started the campaign together will be facing each other for the last time in World Cup 2018.

    Lesser-known stories behind cricketers’ jersey numbers

    Ever wondered why Rahul Dravid wore jersey number 19?

    Rahul Dravid: 10 little-known facts and anecdotes about the Indian cricket legend

    Rahul Dravid has scored over 23,000 international runs for India.

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