Rahul Dravid

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Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid at GQ Men of the Year 2012 Awards
Personal information
Full name Rahul Sharad Dravid
Born
11 January 1973 (age 41)
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Nickname The Wall, Jammy, Mr. Dependable
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm off spin
Role Batsman, occasional wicketkeeper
International information
National side
India
Test debut (cap 206) 20 June 1996 v England
Last Test 24 January 2012 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 95) 3 April 1996 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 16 September 2011 v England
ODI shirt no. 19
Only T20I (cap 38) 31 August 2011 v England
Domestic team information
Years Team
19902012 Karnataka
2000 Kent
2003 Scottish Saltires
20082010 Royal Challengers Bangalore
20112013 Rajasthan Royals
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 164 344 298 449
Runs scored 13,288 10,889 23,794 15,271
Batting average 52.31 39.16 55.33 42.30
100s/50s 36/63 12/83 68/117 21/112
Top score 270 153 270 153
Balls bowled 120 186 617 477
Wickets 1 4 5 4
Bowling average 39.00 42.50 54.60 105.25
5 wickets in
innings
0 0 0 0
10 wickets in
match
0 0 0 0
Best bowling 1/18 2/43 2/16 2/43
Catches/stumpings 210/0 196/14 353/1 233/17
Source: Cricinfo, 30 January 2012
Rahul Dravid( pronunciation (help info); :

; born 11 January 1973) is a

former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history
of cricket.
[1][2][3]
Born in a Marathi family, he started playing cricket at the age of 12 and later
represented the state team at the under-15, under-17 and under-19 levels. Hailed as The Wall,
Dravid was named one of the best five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in
2000 and received the Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year awards at the inaugural
ICC awards ceremony in 2004.
[4][5]
In December 2011, he became the first non-Australian
cricketer to deliver the Bradman Oration in Canberra.
[6]

As of October 2012, Dravid is the fourth-highest run scorer in Test cricket, after Sachin
Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis, and is only the second Indian cricketer, after
Tendulkar to score 10,000 runs both in Tests and in ODIs.
[7][8]
In 2004, after completing his
century against Bangladesh in Chittagong, he became the first and the only player till date to
score a century in all the ten Test-playing countries.
[9]
As of October 2012, he holds the record
for the most number of catches taken by a player (non-wicket-keeper) in Test cricket, with
210.
[10]

In August 2011, after receiving a surprise call in the ODI series against England, Dravid declared
his retirement from ODIs as well as Twenty20 International (T20I), and in March 2012, he
announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket. He appeared in the 2012
Indian Premier League as captain of the Rajasthan Royals.
[11]

Rahul Dravid, along with Glenn McGrath were honoured during the seventh annual Bradman
Awards function in Sydney on 1 November 2012.
[12]
Dravid has also been honoured with the
Padma Bhushan award, India's third highest civilian award.
[13]

Contents
1 Early life and introduction to cricket
2 International career
o 2.1 International Debut
o 2.2 Early years
2.2.1 Success in Test cricket
2.2.2 Struggle in ODIs
o 2.3 Debut World Cup success
o 2.4 After 2000
o 2.5 2011 Tour of England
o 2.6 Retirement
3 Twenty20 career
4 Personal life
5 Playing style
6 Controversies
o 6.1 Ball-tampering incident
o 6.2 Multan declaration
7 Captaincy record
o 7.1 Test Matches
o 7.2 One Day Internationals
8 Biographies
9 Other work
o 9.1 Commercial endorsements
o 9.2 Social commitments
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
Early life and introduction to cricket
Dravid was born in a Maharashtrian Deshastha Brahmin family in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
[14]

His family later moved to Bangalore, Karnataka, where he was raised.
[15]
Dravid's father worked
for a company that makes jams and preserves, giving rise to the later nickname Jammy. His
mother, Pushpa, was a professor of Architecture at the University Visvesvaraya College of
Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore.
[16]
Dravid has a younger brother named Vijay.
[17]
He did his
schooling at St. Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore and earned a degree in commerce from
St. Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore.
[17]
He was selected to India national cricket team
while studying MBA in St Josephs College of Business Administration
Dravid started playing cricket at the age of 12, and represented Karnataka at the under-15, the
under-17 and the under-19 levels.
[18]
Former cricketer Keki Tarapore first noticed Dravid's talent
while coaching at a summer camp in the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
[19]
Dravid scored a century for
his school team.
[20]
He also played as wicket-keeper.
[17]

Dravid made his Ranji Trophy debut in February 1991, while he was still attending college.
[21]

Playing alongside future Indian teammates Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath against
Maharashtra in Pune, he scored 82 runs in the match, which ended in a draw.
[22]
His first full
season was in 199192, when he scored two centuries and finished up with 380 runs at an
average of 63.3,
[23]
getting selected for the South Zone cricket team in the Duleep Trophy.
[24]

International career
International Debut


Dravid batting against England at the Kennington Oval
Dravid made his international debut on 3 April 1996 in an ODI against Sri Lanka in the Singer
Cup held in Singapore immediately after the 1996 World Cup replacing Vinod Kambli.
[25]
He
wasn't particularly impressive with the bat scoring just three runs before being dismissed by
Muttiah Muralitharan but took two catches in the match.
[26]
He followed it up with another
failure in the next ODI of the series scoring just 4 runs before getting run out against Pakistan.
[27]

In contrast to his ODI debut, his Test debut was rather successful one. Dravid was selected for
the Indian Test squad touring England on the backdrop of consistent heavy scoring in domestic
cricket for 5 years,
[28][29]
but didn't get a chance in the First Test despite scoring a fifty each
against the Gloucestershire and the Leicestershire county in the tour games.
[30][31]
He finally
made his debut in Test cricket at Lord's on 20 June 1996 against England in the Second Test of
the series. Dravid got the chance to be in the playing XI only because of the ankle injury to
senior batsman Sanjay Manjrekar.
[32][33]
Coming in to bat at no. 7, he forged important
partnerships with another debutante Sourav Ganguly and his Karnataka team mates Kumble and
Srinath securing a vital lead for his team in testing conditions.
[34]
Batting for more than 6 hours,
he scored 95 runs, missing out on a landmark debut hundred by just 5 runs, before getting out to
the bowling of Chris Lewis.
[35]
He also took his first catch in Test cricket in this match to dismiss
Nasser Hussain off the bowling of Srinath.
[35]
Dravid managed to hold on to his position in the
playing XI in the Third Test despite Manjrekar's return. A hundred against British Universities in
the tour game further strengthened Dravid's cause.
[36]
Eventually Ajay Jadeja was dropped to
accommodate Manjrekar in the team.
[33]
Dravid went on to score 84 runs in the first innings of
the Nottingham Test.
[37]

Early years
Success in Test cricket
After a successful Test debut in England, Dravid played the one-off Test against Australia in
Delhi- The first edition of Border-Gavaskar Trophy and his first test at home. Batting at no.6, he
scored 40 runs in the First innings.
[38]
Dravid batted at no. 3 position for the first time in the First
Test of the three match home series against South Africa in Ahemadabad in November 1996.
[39]

He was then promoted to the opening slot in the Second Test and later demoted in the batting
order for the Third Test.
[39]
He ended the series as the third highest run getter for India with 175
runs at an average of 29.16.
[40]
India won this series 2-1.
[41]
Later that year, India toured South
Africa for the second leg of their back-to-back test series. Chasing a target of 395 runs in the
First Test, Indian team bundled out meekly for 66 runs on the Durban pitch that provided
excessive bounce and seam movement.
[42]
Dravid top scored with 27 not out.
[43]
Dravid was
promoted to the no. 3 slot again in the second innings of the Second Test.
[39]
Though he failed to
make a mark scoring just 12 runs with India losing the match, the move finally paid rich
dividends in the Third Test when Dravid scored his maiden test hundred in the first innings
scoring 148 runs and scored another 81 runs in the second innings fetching a draw for India at
the Wanderers.
[44]
His performance in this Test earned him his first Man of the Match award in
Test cricket.
[45]
Dravid top scored for India in the series with 277 runs at an average of 55.40.
[46]

This series cemented his position at no. 3 in the Indian batting line up.
[47]

Dravid carried his form from South Africa to the West Indies where India toured to play a five
match Test series. India lost the series 0-1.
[48]
Dravid top scored for India with 360 runs at an
average of 72.00
[49]
which included a fifty in each of the five matches except the fourth one.
[50]

92 runs scored in the first innings of the Fifth match in Georgetown earned him a joint Man of
the Match award along with Shivnarine Chanderpaul.
[51]
With this series, Dravid concluded his
first full test season having scored 852 runs in 12 matches at an average of 50.11 with six fifties
and one hundred.
[52]

Dravid continued his good run in the next season scoring 604 runs at an average of 50.33.
[53]
He
scored seven fifties in eight Tests which included 6 fifties in consecutive innings(3 each against
Sri Lanka and Australia).
[53]
The season started with a back-to-back home and away series
against Sri Lanka. While he had a poor outing in Sri Lanka, he made up for it in the home series
where he scored 304 runs at an average of 76.00.
[54]
By the time he completed his second full
season in Test cricket with another decent show in the three Test home series against Australia,
he had scored 15 fifties in 22 Tests which included four scores of nineties but just a solitary
hundred.
[55]

The century drought came to an end in the ensuing season when he further raised the bar of his
performance scoring 752 runs in 7 Tests at an average of 62.66 that included four hundreds and
one fifty.
[56]
The first of those four hundreds came on the Zimbabwe tour. Dravid top scored in
both the innings against Zimbabwe scoring 118 and 44 runs respectively.
[57]
Despite his
performance, India lost the one-off Test.
[58]
This was to be India's only loss for the next 13 years
in any Test match when Dravid scored a hundred.
[59]

Next up was a tour to New Zealand. The series that started with the first duck of his Test career
in the first innings of the Second Test
[39]
(First Test having been abandoned without a ball
bowled)
[60]
ended with twin hundreds in each innings of the Third Test in Hamilton.
[61]
He scored
190 and 103 not out in the first and the second innings respectively, becoming only the third
Indian batsman, after Vijay Hazare and Sunil Gavaskar, to score a century in both innings of a
Test match.
[62][63]
During his innings of 190, he put up a record 144 run partnership against New
Zealand for 8th wicket with Javagal Srinath.
[61][64]
The match ended in a draw.
[63]

Later that month, India played a two Test home series against Pakistan. Dravid didn't do much
with the bat in the series. India lost the First Test
[65]
but won the Second Test in Delhi riding on
Kumble's historic 10-wicket haul.
[66]
Dravid played his part in the 10-wicket haul by taking a
catch to dismiss Mushtaq Ahmed who was Kumble's eighth victim of the inning.
[67]

Pakistan played another Test in India a couple of weeks later- First Test of the first ever Asian
Test Championship. Dravid couldn't do much with the bat, and India went on to lose the riot-
affected Test at the Eden Gardens.
[68]
India went to Sri Lanka to play the Second Test of the
champioship. Dravid scored a hundred at Colombo in the first innings and featured in a record
breaking 232 run stand with Sadagoppan Ramesh for the second wicket against Sri Lanka.
[69]

Dravid also effected a run out of Russel Arnold during Sri Lankan inning fielding at short leg.
[70]

On the fourth morning, Dravid got injured while fielding at the same position when the ball from
Jayawardene's pull shot hit him below his left eye through the helmet grill. He didn't come out to
bat in the second innings due to the injury.
[71]
India could only manage a draw and failed to
qualify for the Finals of the championship.
[72]

Struggle in ODIs