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Goodbye Mr. Rahul Dravid "The Wall"

Rahul Sharad Dravid (born 11 January 1973) is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2000. Dravid was also awarded the ICC Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year at the inaugural awards ceremony held in 2004. Dravid also holds the record of having taken the most number of catches in Test cricket.Rahul Dravid retires from international cricket on 9 march 2012. On 7 August 2011 after getting a surprise call to play in ODI series against England he declared his retirement from One Day Internationals and T20.

Popularly hailed as "The Wall of Indian cricket", Dravid is regarded by many to be one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the game. Dravid holds multiple cricketing records. He is the second Indian batsman, after Sachin Tendulkar, and the third international player to reach 12,000 runs in Test cricket. On 14 February 2007, he became the sixth player overall and the third Indian (after Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly), to score 10,000 runs in ODI cricket in cricketing history. He is the first and only batsman to score a century in all ten Test playing nations. With more than 200 catches, Dravid currently holds the world record for the most number of catches in Test cricket. Dravid has also been involved in more than 80 century partnerships with 18 different partners and has been involved in 19 century partnerships with Sachin Tendulkar – a world record. On 24 November 2011, He became the second international player to reach 13,000 runs in Test Cricket only after Sachin Tendulkar.

On 14 December 2011, he became the first non-Australian cricketer to address at the Bradman Oration in Canberra.Dravid has been bowled 55 times in Test cricket, going past Allan Border's previous record of 53. On 09 March 2012, Rahul Dravid announced his retirement from the International Cricket. Dravid made the announcement with the BCCI president, N Srinivasan and formwer captain Anil Kumble at a press conference in Bangalore.

Life and Family
Dravid was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh into a Maharashtrian Deshastha family living in Karnataka. He was raised in Bangalore, Karnataka. He has a younger brother, Vijay. Dravid's father worked for Kissan, a company known for producing jams and preserves and thus he earned the nickname Jammy from his teammates at St. Joseph's Boys' High School. His mother, Pushpa, was a professor of architecture at Bangalore University. Rahul Dravid has a degree in commerce from St. Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore.

Dravid started playing cricket at the age of 12, and represented the state at the under-15, under-17 and under-19 level. Rahul's talents were first spotted by former cricketer Keki Tarapore who was coaching at a summer coaching camp at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. He went on to score a century on debut for his school team. Along with the batting, he was keeping wickets. However, he later stopped keeping wickets on advice from former Test players Gundappa Vishwanath, Roger Binny, Brijesh Patel and Tarapore.

He was selected to make his Ranji Trophy debut in February 1991 against Maharashtra in Pune (while still attending college at St. Joseph's College of Commerce in Bangalore), alongside future Indian teammates Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath, scoring 82 in a drawn match after batting in the No. 7 position. His first full season was in 1991–92, when he scored two centuries to finish with 380 runs at an average of 63.3, and was selected for South Zone in the Duleep Trophy. On 4 May 2003, he married Vijeta Pendharkar, a surgeon from Nagpur. They have two children, Samit (born 2005) and Anvay (born 2009).

Teams : -International

* India (current)
* ACC Asian XI
* ICC World XI
* MCC

Indian first-class

* Karnataka
* South Zone

Indian Premier League

* Royal Challengers Bangalore
* Rajasthan Royals

English county

* Kent
* Scotland

Rahul Dravid Stats – Batting And Fielding :


 Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave Balls Faced Strike Rate 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 163 284 32 13262 270 52.62 31178 42.53 36 63 1652 21 210 0
ODIs 344 318 40 10889 153 39.16 15284 71.24 12 83 950 42 196 14
T20I 1 1 0 31 31 31.00 21 147.61 0 0 0 3 0 0
First-class 297 495 67 23768 270 55.53

68 117

353 1
List A 449 416 55 15271 153 42.30

21 112

233 17
Twenty20 69 62 6 1605 75* 28.66 1369 117.23 0 7 178 25 14 0

Rahul Dravid Statistics – Bowling :


 Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 163 5 120 39 1 1/18 1/18 39.00 1.95 120.0 0 0 0
ODIs 344 8 186 170 4 2/43 2/43 42.50 5.48 46.5 0 0 0
T20I 1 - - - - - - - - - - -
First-class 297
617 273 5 2/16
54.60 2.65 123.4
0 0
List A 449
477 421 4 2/43 2/43 105.25 5.29 119.2 0 0 0
Twenty20 69 - - - - - - - - - - - -

Rahul Dravid Career :

Test debut England v India at Lord's, Jun 20-24, 1996
Last Test Australia Vs India at Perth, January 13-17, 2012
ODI debut India v Sri Lanka at Singapore , Apr 3, 1996
Last ODI India v England at Cardiff, Sep 16, 2011 Scorecard
T20I Debut India v England at Lord's, Sep 11, 2011
First-class debut 1990/91
Last First-class Australia Vs India at Perth, January 13-17, 2012
List A debut 1992/93
Last List A India v England at Cardiff, Sep 16, 2011
Twenty20 debut Karnataka v Gujarat at Mumbai (BS), Apr 17, 2007
Last Twenty20 England v India at Manchester, Aug 31, 2011

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