Date of birth: January 11, 1973
Rahul Dravid is profiled as an Indian cricket player and the former captain of the Indian national cricket team. He sets from the rest of Indian batsmen by the highest Test batting average. Rahul Dravid belongs to an exclusive group of three Indian batsmen to score 9,000 runs in test cricket. The other two are Sachin Tendilkar and Sunil Gavaskar. On February 14, 2007 Dravid became the sixth cricket player in history to score 10,000 runs in ODI cricket, placing him on the highest rank as an Indian batsman in the ICC Test rankings. Rahul Dravid has a huge number of fans including many females. Yet in 2003 he broke many passionate hearts by marrying his beloved at the Yelahanka Temple. Rahul Dravi’s wife Vijeta Pendharkar is a doctor from Nagpur and the couple has a son, Samit, born in 2005.
Rahul Dravid was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh in a Maharashtrian brahmin family residing in Karnataka. His father was a Kissan employee, a company known for jams and preserves. He speaks fluently in Kannada and Marathi and he has a brother named Vijay. Rahul Dravid holds a degree in commerce from St Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore, Karnataka. Rahul’s interest in cricket was noticed at the age of 12, when he began to play cricket. In the next couple of years he already played at the state level for teens. His talent was initially spotted by a former cricketer Keki Tarapore when Rahul attended a summer camp.
Rahul Dravid is profiled as an Indian cricket player and the former captain of the Indian national cricket team. He sets from the rest of Indian batsmen by the highest Test batting average. Rahul Dravid belongs to an exclusive group of three Indian batsmen to score 9,000 runs in test cricket. The other two are Sachin Tendilkar and Sunil Gavaskar. On February 14, 2007 Dravid became the sixth cricket player in history to score 10,000 runs in ODI cricket, placing him on the highest rank as an Indian batsman in the ICC Test rankings. Rahul Dravid has a huge number of fans including many females. Yet in 2003 he broke many passionate hearts by marrying his beloved at the Yelahanka Temple. Rahul Dravi’s wife Vijeta Pendharkar is a doctor from Nagpur and the couple has a son, Samit, born in 2005.
Rahul Dravid was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh in a Maharashtrian brahmin family residing in Karnataka. His father was a Kissan employee, a company known for jams and preserves. He speaks fluently in Kannada and Marathi and he has a brother named Vijay. Rahul Dravid holds a degree in commerce from St Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore, Karnataka. Rahul’s interest in cricket was noticed at the age of 12, when he began to play cricket. In the next couple of years he already played at the state level for teens. His talent was initially spotted by a former cricketer Keki Tarapore when Rahul attended a summer camp.
He grew up in Bangalore, Karnataka. Though dropped from the one-day team earlier in his career for scoring relatively slowly, he is, at present, ranked the 7th best Test batsmen by the ICC in world cricket at the moment, and has the highest Test batting average of any Indian batsman in history. He started his international cricket career in 1996.
With a strong technique, he has been the backbone for the Indian cricket team. Beginning with the reputation of being a defensive batsman who should be confined to Test cricket, he was dropped from ODIs as he was slow in making runs. Of late, however, Rahul Dravid has defied early perceptions to become the mainstay of the Indian batting line-up in ODIs as well as in Tests. His nickname of 'The Wall' in Reebok advertisements has now become a tribute to his consistency. Dravid has scored 23 centuries in Test cricket at an average of 58.75, including 5 double centuries. In one-dayers though he has an average of 40.16, he is a slow scorer at a strike rate of 70. He is one of the few Indians who average more at away matches than at home, averaging over 10 more runs a match abroad than on Indian pitches. As of 9 August, 2006, Dravid's average in overseas Tests stood at 65.28 as against his overall Test average of 58.75, and his average for away ODI stands at 42.03 as against overall ODI average of 40.20. In matches that India has won, Dravid averages 78.72 in Tests and 53.40 in ODIs.
Dravid's sole Test wicket was that of Ridley Jacobs in the fourth Test against the West Indies during the 2001-2002 series. While he has no pretensions to being a bowler, Dravid often kept wicket for India in ODIs, an 'experiment' that continued for several seasons. He has since delegated the wicket-keeping gloves, first to Parthiv Patel and more recently to Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Dravid is now purely a batsman, one who has averaged 63.51 in matches played since 1 January, 2000.
Dravid was involved in two of the largest parnerships in ODIs: a 318-run partnership with Sourav Ganguly, the first pair to combine for a 300-run partnership, and then a 331-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar, which is the present world record. He also holds the record for the greatest number of innings since debut before being dismissed for a duck. His highest scores in ODIs and Tests are 153 and 270 respectively. Uniquely, each of his five double centuries in Tests was a higher score than his previous double century (200*, 217, 222, 233, 270).
Also, Dravid is the current world record holder for the highest percentage(%) contribution of runs scored in matches won under a single captain, where the captain has won more than 20 Tests. In the 21 Test matches India won under Sourav Ganguly's leadership, Dravid played his part in every single one of those wins, scoring at a record average of 102.84 and piling up an astonishing 2571 runs, with nine hundreds - three of them double-centuries - and ten fifties in 32 innings. He contributed nearly 23% of the total runs scored by India those 21 matches, which is almost one run out of every four runs the team scored.
Rahul Dravid's career performance graph.He was named one of the Wisden cricketers of the year 2000.
In 2004, Dravid was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. On 7 September, 2004, he was awarded the inaugural Player of the year award and the Test player of the year by the International Cricket Council, ICC (associated image below). Dravid's batting average of 95.46 in the past year has made him the only Indian to be in the Test team of the year. On 18th March, 2006, Dravid played his 100th Test against England in Mumbai.
In 2005, a biography of Rahul Dravid written by Devendra Prabhudesai was published, 'The Nice Guy Who Finished First'.
In the 2005 ICC Awards he was the only Indian to be named to the World one-day XI.
In 2006, it was announced that he would remain captain of the Indian team up to the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies
With a strong technique, he has been the backbone for the Indian cricket team. Beginning with the reputation of being a defensive batsman who should be confined to Test cricket, he was dropped from ODIs as he was slow in making runs. Of late, however, Rahul Dravid has defied early perceptions to become the mainstay of the Indian batting line-up in ODIs as well as in Tests. His nickname of 'The Wall' in Reebok advertisements has now become a tribute to his consistency. Dravid has scored 23 centuries in Test cricket at an average of 58.75, including 5 double centuries. In one-dayers though he has an average of 40.16, he is a slow scorer at a strike rate of 70. He is one of the few Indians who average more at away matches than at home, averaging over 10 more runs a match abroad than on Indian pitches. As of 9 August, 2006, Dravid's average in overseas Tests stood at 65.28 as against his overall Test average of 58.75, and his average for away ODI stands at 42.03 as against overall ODI average of 40.20. In matches that India has won, Dravid averages 78.72 in Tests and 53.40 in ODIs.
Dravid's sole Test wicket was that of Ridley Jacobs in the fourth Test against the West Indies during the 2001-2002 series. While he has no pretensions to being a bowler, Dravid often kept wicket for India in ODIs, an 'experiment' that continued for several seasons. He has since delegated the wicket-keeping gloves, first to Parthiv Patel and more recently to Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Dravid is now purely a batsman, one who has averaged 63.51 in matches played since 1 January, 2000.
Dravid was involved in two of the largest parnerships in ODIs: a 318-run partnership with Sourav Ganguly, the first pair to combine for a 300-run partnership, and then a 331-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar, which is the present world record. He also holds the record for the greatest number of innings since debut before being dismissed for a duck. His highest scores in ODIs and Tests are 153 and 270 respectively. Uniquely, each of his five double centuries in Tests was a higher score than his previous double century (200*, 217, 222, 233, 270).
Also, Dravid is the current world record holder for the highest percentage(%) contribution of runs scored in matches won under a single captain, where the captain has won more than 20 Tests. In the 21 Test matches India won under Sourav Ganguly's leadership, Dravid played his part in every single one of those wins, scoring at a record average of 102.84 and piling up an astonishing 2571 runs, with nine hundreds - three of them double-centuries - and ten fifties in 32 innings. He contributed nearly 23% of the total runs scored by India those 21 matches, which is almost one run out of every four runs the team scored.
Rahul Dravid's career performance graph.He was named one of the Wisden cricketers of the year 2000.
In 2004, Dravid was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. On 7 September, 2004, he was awarded the inaugural Player of the year award and the Test player of the year by the International Cricket Council, ICC (associated image below). Dravid's batting average of 95.46 in the past year has made him the only Indian to be in the Test team of the year. On 18th March, 2006, Dravid played his 100th Test against England in Mumbai.
In 2005, a biography of Rahul Dravid written by Devendra Prabhudesai was published, 'The Nice Guy Who Finished First'.
In the 2005 ICC Awards he was the only Indian to be named to the World one-day XI.
In 2006, it was announced that he would remain captain of the Indian team up to the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies
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