Published: Jul 09, 2015, 01:52 PM (IST)
Edited: Jul 09, 2015, 04:47 PM (IST)
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 an emphatic fashion after following 274 behind, Dravid’s 180 was outshone by VVS Laxman’s 281.
