He has been the finest ambassador for India in the traditional form of the game and Rahul Dravid, after calling time on his cricket career, remained true to his first love — Test cricket.
With his cricketing career coming to an end after the Champions League Twenty20 2013 final, Rahul Dravid said that playing for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) helped him to keep in touch with the game and step away from international cricket easily.
He was called the gentlemen's gentleman. Whoever branded cricket the gentleman's game decades ago must have foreseen someone like him gracing the sport in the future. He was called "The Wall" for his robust, rock-solid, and near-impregnable defence while batting.
With voices clamouring for Sachin Tendulkar’s retirement, we continue to hear that he will perhaps be coaxed into hanging up his boots. Along with it the perennially volatile, headline parroting populace continue their chants, asking him to emulate Ricky Ponting and Rahul Dravid and call it a day as those two masters had done. Arunabha Sengupta checks the numbers — those perennial dampeners of such good stories — and argues why the master should still be allowed to retire on his own terms.
Former Indian captain Rahul Dravid on Sunday said that cricket's influence in his life was such that the game made him a better person.
Former Indian skipper Rahul Dravid is likely to receive Padma Bhushan along with London Olympics bronze medalist boxer MC Mary Kom, India's third highest civilian award, according to CNN-IBN reports on Friday.
After retiring from international cricket, former India captain Rahul Dravid might not have to deal with critics anymore, but he is continuing to face criticism from unexpected quarter -- his two sons.
By CricketCountry Staff Tributes have been pouring since the time Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman announced their retirements from international cricket. One of them has been long time friend Anil Kumble who said his stay and time with the team was made eventful by Dravid and Laxman.
By CricketCountry Staff
Tributes have been pouring since the time Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman announced their retirements from international cricket. One of them has been long time friend Anil Kumble who said his stay and time with the team was made eventful by Dravid and Laxman.
Indian cricket team gears up to begin life without the famed batting duo of Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman when they take on a lowly New Zealand in the first Test of the two-match series. The captain of Indian cricket team MS Dhoni has admitted that the team will miss the services of champion...
Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar feels the retirement of his long-time teammate Rahul Dravid has created an irreplaceable void at number three position in the Indian Test team.