RAHUL DRAVID

RAHUL DRAVID

LIFE

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CAREER

Rahul Dravid was born 11 January 1973, is a former indian cricketer, who captained the Test and One day international teams.

Born in a marathi family.

He started playing cricket at the age of 12 and later represented the state team at under-15, under-17, under-19 levels.

Hailed as "The wall" dravid has been described as one of the greatest batsman in the history of cricket.
In December 2011,he became the first non-australian cricketer to address at the Bradman Oration in Canberra.

• In August 2011,after receiving a surprise call in the ODI series against England.
• Dravid declared his retirement from ODI's as well as Twenty20 international , 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 Rajasthan Royals.
• Rahul dravid along with Glen mcgreth were honoured during the seventh annual Bradman awards function in sydney on 1 November 2012.
• Dravid has also been honoured with the Padma bhushan award, india's third highest civilian award.

Early life:

Introduction to cricket:

• Dravid did his schooling at St.Joseph's boys high school, Banglore and earned a degree in commerce from St.Joseph's college of commerce , Banglore.
• He started playing cricket at the age of 12, and represented karnataka at under-15, Under-17, under-19 levels.
• Former cricketer keki tarapore first noticed dravids talent while coaching at a summer camp in the chinna swamy stadium.
• Dravid scored a century for his school team .
•  He also played as wicket-keeper.
• But later stopped keeping wicket on the advice of former test players, Gundappa vishwanath Rogger binny , Brijesh patel, Tarapore.

International career:

International Debut:

• Dravid made his international debut 3 April 1996 in an ODI against srilanka in the singer cup held in singapore immediately after the 1996 world cup replacing vinod kambli.
• He wasn't particularly impressive with the bat scoring just three runs before being dismissed by Mutthaih muralidharan but took two catches in the match.
• He followed it up with another failure in the next ODI of the series scoring just 4 runs before getting runout against pakisthan.

Early years :

Success in the test cricket :

• Dravid continued his good run in the next season whether he 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.
• 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.
• Despite his performance india lost the one-off test.
• This was to be india's only loss for the next 13 years in any test match when dravid scored hundred. 

Struggle in ODI's:

• Dravid scored another hundred against srilanka in 1998/99 pepsi cup at nagpur.
• The same opponents against whom he had scored a hundred a month back in Asian test championship.
• He didn't score much in rest of the matches of the pepsi cup.
• Dravid warmed up for his debut world cup with two fifties in the 1998-99 coco cola cup in sharjah, one each against England and pakisthan.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dravid also took a catch in his match.
• He ended up as the top scorer in india with 188 runs in five games.
• Though his last inning before the world cup as a golden duck against pakisthan , dismissed by wasim akram, in the finals of the series.

Retirement :

• Dravid was dropped from the  ODI team in 2009.
• But was selected again for ODI series In England 2012, surprising himself dravid, since although he had not officially retired from the ODI cricket , he had not expected to be recalled.
• After being selected he announced that he would retire from ODI cricket after the series.
• Dravid announced his retirement from test and domestic cricket on 3 March 2012 after the 2011-12 tour of Australia.
• But he said he would captain the Rajasthan royals in 2012 indian premier league.
• He was the second highest run scorer and had taken the highest number of catches in the test cricket and at the same time of his retirement.

Personel life :

• On 4 May 2003, he married vijetha pendharkar, a surgeon from nagpur.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• They have two children , Samit, born in 2005, and Anvay born in 2009.

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