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Rahul Sharad Dravid (/ˌrəhuːl drəvɪd/ (About this soundlisten); born 11 January 1973) is a former Indian
cricketer and captain of the Indian national team. He is the Director of Cricket Operations at National
Cricket Academy, Bengaluru, India. He also monitors the progress of India A and India under-19 cricket
teams. Before this he was Head Coach for the India Under-19 and India A teams from 2016 to 2019.[2]
Under his coaching, under-19 team was runners up at 2016 u-19 Cricket World Cup and were winners at
2018 u-19 Cricket World Cup. In 2019, BCCI appointed Dravid as Head of NCA. Known for his sound
batting technique,[3] Dravid has scored nearly 25,000 runs in international cricket and is widely
regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.[4][5][6] He is colloquially known as
Dependable or Mr. Dependable, and often referred to as The Great Wall or The Wall by Indian cricket
followers.[7]

Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid at GQ Men Of The Year 2012 AWARD.jpg

Rahul Dravid at GQ Men of the Year 2012 Awards

Personal information

Full name

Rahul Sharad Dravid

Born

11 January 1973 (age 48)

Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

The Wall, The Great Wall, Jammy, Mr. Dependable[1]

Height

1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)

Batting

Right-handed

Bowling

Right arm off spin

Role

Batsman, occasional wicket-keeper

Website

www.rahuldravid.com

International information

National side

India (1996–2012)

Test debut (cap 207)

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

T20I shirt no.

19

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1990–2012

Karnataka

2000

Kent

2003

Scottish Saltires

2008–2010

Royal Challengers Bangalore

2011–2013

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

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: ESPNcricinfo, 30 January 2012

Born in a Marathi family and brought up in Bangalore, he started playing cricket at the age of 12 and
later represented Karnataka 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.[8][9] In December 2011, he became the first non-Australian cricketer to deliver the
Bradman Oration in Canberra.[10]

As of December 2016, Dravid is the fourth-highest run scorer in Test cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar,
Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis.[11][12] In 2004, after completing his century against Bangladesh in
Chittagong, he became the first player to score a century in all the ten Test-playing countries.[13] As of
October 2012, he holds the record for the most catches taken by a player (non-wicket-keeper) in Test
cricket, with 210.[14] Dravid holds a unique record of never getting out for a Golden duck in the 286 Test
innings which he has played. He has faced 31258 balls, which is the highest number of balls faced by any
player in test cricket. He has also spent 44152 minutes at the crease, which is the highest time spent on
crease by any player in test cricket.[15]. Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar are currently the highest scoring
partnership in Test cricket history having scored 6920 runs combined when batting together for
India[16].

In August 2011, after receiving a surprise recall 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.[17]

Rahul Dravid, along with Glenn McGrath were honoured during the seventh annual Bradman Awards
function in Sydney on 1 November 2012.[18] Dravid has also been honoured with the Padma Shri and
the Padma Bhushan award, India's fourth and third highest civilian awards respectively.[19][20]
In 2014, Rahul Dravid joined the GoSports Foundation, Bangalore as a member of their board of
advisors. In collaboration with GoSports Foundation he is mentoring India's future Olympians and
Paralympians as part of the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme.[21] Indian badminton player
Prannoy Kumar, Para-swimmer Sharath Gayakwad and young Golfer S. Chikkarangappa was part of the
initial group of athletes to be mentored by Rahul Dravid. In July 2018, Dravid became the fifth Indian
cricketer to be inducted into ICC Hall of Fame.[22]

Early life

Dravid was born in a Marathi family[23] in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.[24] His family later moved to
Bangalore, Karnataka, where he was raised.[25] His mother tongue is Marathi.[26] Dravid's father
Sharad Dravid 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.[27] Dravid has a younger brother named Vijay.[28] 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.[28] He was selected to India's national cricket team while working towards an
MBA at St Joseph's College of Business Administration.[29] He is fluent in several languages: Marathi,
Kannada, English and Hindi.[23]

Formative years and domestic career

International career

Captaincy

Dravid captained India in the first two tests in the absence of injured Ganguly and led India to their first-
ever Test victory in Pakistan. Dravid, standing in only his second test as team's captain, took a bold and
controversial decision during First Test at Multan that divided the cricket fraternity. Pakistani cricketers
had been on field for 150+ overs as India posted a total in excess of 600 runs in the first innings. Dravid,
who wanted to have a crack at the tired Pakistani batsmen in the final hour of second day's play,
declared Indian innings with Tendulkar batting at 194, just six runs short of his double century. While
some praised the team before personal milestones approach of the Indian captain, most criticized
Dravid's timing of declaration as there were no pressing concerns and there was ample time left in the
match to try and bowl Pakistan out twice. While Tendulkar was admittedly disappointed, any rumours of
rift between him and Dravid were quashed by both the cricketers and the team management, who
claimed that the matter had been discussed and sorted amicably behind closed doors. India eventually
went on to win the match by innings margin. Pakistan leveled the series beating India in the Second
Test. Dravid slammed a double hundred in the Third Test at Rawalpindi – his third double hundred of the
season. He scored 270 runs – his career best performance – before getting out to reverse sweep trying
to force the pace. India went on to win the match and the series – their first series victory outside India
since 1993. Dravid was adjudged man of the match for his effort.

Dravid was appointed the captain for the Indian team for 2007 World Cup, where India had an
unsuccessful campaign.

Dravid fielding during a Test match against Sri Lanka in Galle in 2008.

During India's unsuccessful tour of England in 2011, in which their 4–0 loss cost them the top rank in
Test cricket, Dravid made three centuries.

Dravid batting against Australia at the MCG

2011 Tour of England

Having regained his form on the tour to West Indies, where he scored a match-winning hundred in
Sabina park, Jamaica, Dravid then toured England in what was billed as the series which would decide
the World No. 1 ranking in tests. In the first test at Lord's, in reply to England's 474, Dravid scored an
unbeaten 103, his first hundred at the ground where he debuted in 1996. He received scant support
from his teammates as India were bowled out for 286 and lost the test.[178] The 2nd test at
Trentbridge, Nottingham again saw Dravid in brilliant form. Sent out to open the batting in place of an
injured Gautam Gambhir, he scored his second successive hundred. His 117 though, again came in a
losing cause, as a collapse of 6 wickets for 21 runs in the first innings led to a massive defeat by 319
runs.[179] Dravid failed in both innings in the third test at Birmingham, as India lost by an innings and
242 runs, one of the heaviest defeats in their history.[180] However, he came back brilliantly in the
fourth and final match at The Oval. Again opening the batting in place of Gambhir, he scored an
unbeaten 146 out of India's total of 300, carrying his bat through the innings. Once again, though, his
efforts were in vain as India lost the match, completing a 0–4 whitewash.[181] In all, he scored 461 runs
in the four matches at an average of 76.83 with three hundreds. He accounted for over 26% of India's
runs in the series and was named India's man of the series by England coach Andy Flower. His
performance in the series was met with widespread admiration and was hailed by some as one of his
finest ever series[182][183]

Retirement
Rahul Dravid was dropped from the ODI team in 2009, but was selected again for an ODI series in
England in 2011, surprising even Dravid himself since, although he had not officially retired from ODI
cricket, he had not expected to be recalled.[184][185][186] After being selected, he announced that he
would retire from ODI cricket after the series.[184] He played his last ODI innings against England at
Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, on 16 September 2011, scoring 69 runs from 79 balls before being bowled by
Graeme Swann.[187] His last limited-overs international match was his debut T20I match; he announced
his retirement before playing his first T20I match.[188]

My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was
about playing with dignity, and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some
of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with
pride

– Dravid, at his retirement speech, March 2012[189]

Dravid announced his retirement from Test and domestic cricket on 9 March 2012, after the 2011–12
tour of Australia, but he said that he would captain the Rajasthan Royals in the 2012 Indian Premier
League. He was the second-highest run scorer and had taken the highest number of catches in Test
cricket at the time of his retirement.[190]

In July 2014, he played for the MCC side in the Bicentenary Celebration match at Lord's.[191]

County stint

Indian Premier League and Champions League

Playing style

Controversies

Achievements and awards

Personal life

Biographies

See also

References

External links
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