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Rahul Dravid

India
Personal information
Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling style Off spin (OB)
Career statistics
Tests ODIs
Matches 104 292
Runs scored 9049 9528
Batting average 58.75 40.20
100s/50s 23/46 12/71
Top score 270 153
Overs 20 31
Wickets 1 4
Bowling average 39.00 42.50
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/18 2/43
Catches/stumpings 146/0 174/14

As of 9 August 2006
Source: [1]

Rahul Sharad Dravid (Kannada:ರಾಹುಲ್‌ ಶರದ್‌ ದ್ರಾವಿಡ್‌ /Devanagari:राहुल शरद द्रविड) pronunciation (help·info) (born 11 January 1973 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh) is an Indian cricketer. He started his international cricket career in 1996 after a change in personnel following the 1996 Cricket World Cup, and has been a regular fixture ever since, as a middle order batsman and occasional wicket-keeper in One Day Internationals. He is one of the top-ranked batsmen in world cricket and has been the current captain of the Indian cricket team since October 2005.

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[edit] Early years

Born in Indore, Dravid's family relocated to Bangalore, Karnataka, where his father worked for Kissan, a company known for jams and preserves. This lead to him earning the nickname Jammy from his teammates at St. Josephs High School, Bangalore. Dravid first came to prominence whilst attending a summer coaching camp at the Chinnaswamy Stadium where his talents were spotted by former cricketer Keki Tarapore who was coaching at the clinic [2]. He went on to score a century on debut for his school team and was selected for the the U-15 Karnataka cricket team, scoring a double century against the U-15 Kerala cricket team[citation needed]. 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, alongside future Indian teammates Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath. He scored 82 in that drawn match after batting in the No. 7 position [3]. His first full season was in 1991-92, when he scored two centuries to finish with 380 runs at an average of 63.3 [4], and was selected for South Zone in the Duleep Trophy [5], for whom he has been subsequently chosen annually. He had a stronger season in 1992-93, scoring 582 runs at an average of 83.1 including a double century [6] but managed only one game in the Duleep Trophy, scoring 14. In the following year, he had another strong Ranji Trophy scoring 644 runs at an average of 80.5 including two centuries [7] but again had a disappointing Duleep Trophy campaign, averaging just 13. [8]. However, in the 1994-95 season, Dravid played only once in the Ranji competition, but he scored 191 in his only innings [9] and averaged 52 in the Duleep Trophy [10]. In the 1995-96 Ranji Trophy season, he scored 153 as captain against Hyderabad in the semi-final [11] to advance to the final, in which he scored another century against Tamil Nadu [12]. In total he scored 460 runs at an average of 57.50 [13] and was the second highest run-scorer in the Duleep Trophy behind V. V. S. Laxman as well as topping the averages [14]. Dravid became a contender for International duties after being selected for the India A team in a domestic tournament in the 1994-95 season [15] and again in the 1995-96 season [16], where he top-scored for his team in the match against India B [17] and the final against the senior Indian team [18]. However, he was omitted from the Indian team for the 1996 Cricket World Cup held on the Indian subcontinent.

[edit] International career

Dravid made his international debut in one-dayers against Sri Lanka in the Singer Cup in Singapore immediately after the World Cup in March 1996, replacing Vinod Kambli. After scoring just 21 runs in four matches [19] , Dravid was dropped during the Sharjah tournament and did not play again until Sanjay Manjrekar was injured on the tour of England [20].

With Manjrekar sidelined, he then made his debut in the Second Test against England along with Sourav Ganguly, scoring 95 [21]. He held his position on Manjrekar's return for the Third Test, scoring 84 [22]. After moderate home series against Australia and South Africa, Dravid broke through on the 1996-97 tour of South Africa. He batted at No. 3 in the third Test in Johannesburg, scoring his maiden century with 148 and 81, the top score in each innings to claim his first man of the match award [23]. He made his first half-century against Pakistan in the Sahara Cup in 1996, scoring 90 in his 10th ODI [24].

In the 18 months ending in mid-1998, he played in an away series against the West Indies, home and away series against Sri Lanka and a home series against Australia, he scored consistently, with 964 runs at an average of 56.7. He scored eleven half-centuries but was unable to convert them to triple figures [25]. He scored his second century in late 1998 against Zimbabwe in a one-off Test match, top-scoring in both innings with 148 and 44, but was unable to prevent an Indian defeat [26]. He then became the third Indian batsman after Vijay Hazare and Sunil Gavaskar to score centuries in both innings of a match during the 1999 New Year's Test match against New Zealand with 190 and 103* to force a draw [27], batting for a total of 653 minutes [28]. He had a moderate subcontinental season in early 1999, scoring 269 runs at 38.42 with one century before scoring 239 at 39.8 including a century against New Zealand in late 1999[29]. This was followed by a poor away series against Australia and another poor home series against South Africa, accumulating just 187 runs at an average of 18.7. He then scored 200*, his first double century, against Zimbabwe in Delhi which along with 70* in the second innings helped India to victory. It was the first time he had passed 50 in 12 months and he followed this with a 162 in the following Test, giving him 432 runs in the two match series at an average of 432 [30].

[edit] Dravid's style (needs culling)

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 was treated by ODI fans as a derisory comment about his inability to rotate strike as he tended to hold up one end playing his front foot defence, neither scoring runs nor getting out. The nickname 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, whilst in one-dayers he has an average of 40.16 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. [31] 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. This amazing consistency of Dravid was the single most important reason behind India's Test victories under Sourav Ganguly.

Rahul Dravid's career performance graph
Rahul Dravid's career performance graph

Dravid has played county cricket for Kent and Scotland.

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 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 2006, it was announced that he would remain captain of the Indian team up to the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies.


[edit] Personal Records

[edit] Tests

  • Dravid has the 2nd highest Test batting average among those who have scored over 8,000 Test runs. (30 March 2006)
  • Scored nearly 23% of the total runs put up by India (with a batting average of 102.84) in the 21 Test matches won under Ganguly's captaincy. This is the highest percentage contribution by any batsman in Test cricket history in matches won under a single captain where the captain has won more than 20 tests.[32]
  • Longest streak of consecutive Tests since debut (94)
  • Only player to score a century against every Test playing nation away from home (until the ICC decides to add more nations to the list of Test playing nations his record can only be equalled, not broken).
  • Involved in highest partnership made away from home for any wicket for India with vice captain Virender Sehwag of 410 runs vs Pakistan at Lahore in 2006 (the highest partnership between a captain and the vice captain).
  • He is the fastest to reach 9000 runs in Test cricket. In all he took 176 innings to do this, bettering the previous record set by Brian Lara by 1 innings.
  • He has the best career Test average among contemporary batsmen who have played at least 20 innings (58.75 after 104 Tests and 176 innings, just ahead of Ricky Ponting's 58.22 from 105 matches and 175 innings; as of 9th August 2006 Michael Hussey averages 75.93 after 19 innings).
  • With scores of 50 or more in 7 consecutive Tests Dravid bettered the previous Indian record of 50+ scores in 6 consecutive Tests for a single batsman. This record was shared by Vijay Hazare, Chandu Borde, Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Sadagoppan Ramesh. As of 4/7/06 this streak is unbroken.
  • He is currently joint 4th along with Brian Lara among batsmen who have scored most away runs in Tests (5288 as of August 9th 2006). Only Sachin Tendulkar, Allan Border and Vivian Richards have scored more away Test runs.
  • Best career average among players who have played 100 or more Tests.
  • Best away average among players who have played 50 or more away Tests.
  • 9th batsman to score twin hundreds in a test twice, and only the 2nd Indian to do so, after Sunil Gavakar.
  • 1st Indian to score 5 double hundreds, each bigger than the previous.

[edit] One Dayers

  • The only batsman to have been involved in two ODI partnerships exceeding 300 runs.
  • First batsman to be involved in a 300 run partnership along with Sourav Ganguly in the 1999 World Cup match against Sri Lanka at Taunton.
  • Involved in the highest partnership in the history of ODI cricket with a 331 run partnership along with Sachin Tendulkar vs New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999-2000.
  • He was the leading run scorer in the 1999 World Cup with 461 runs.
  • Highest score by a wicketkeeper in a World Cup.
  • The highest winning percentage among all the captains who have captained their sides in at least 5 ODIs. He's won 23, lost 13 and had no result in 1 - this winning percentage of 62.16 displaces Ajay Jadeja's 61.54
  • He is tied with Sachin Tendulkar in fourth place for having captained India in the most victorious matches
  • Has the highest ODI batting average as captain of 45.58 (as of 4/7/06), among all captains who have captained more than 10 ODIs.

[edit] Outstanding Innings

[edit] Tests

180 vs Australia at Kolkata, India in 2001
148 vs England at Leeds, UK in 2002

[edit] One Dayers

126 vs New Zealand at Taupo, New Zealand, in 1998-99 145 vs Sri Lanka at Taunton, England, in 1999

153 vs New Zealand at Hyderabad, India, in 1999-2000.

  • Under his captaincy the Indian team tied the previous record of most consecutive wins for an Indian team (8).
  • During his captaincy the Indian team broke the 14 match West Indies record for most consecutive won matches while chasing a total For this 17 match run, Dravid was captain for 15 and Sourav Ganguly was captain for the other two. This streak was broken on 5/20/06, when India lost to the West Indies by one run, at Sabina Park, Jamaica.
  • Rahul Dravid led India to a historic test series win, in the West Indies in 2006. Since 1971, India had never won a test series in the West Indies. This is also their first prominent series win outside the Indian subcontinent (barring the win against Zimbabwe in 2005) since 1986. <PAKISTAN 2004>

[edit] Teams

[edit] International

  • India (current)
  • ACC Asian XI
  • ICC World XI

[edit] Indian first-class

[edit] English county

[edit] Timeline

  • 1997 - Maiden Test hundred (148), vs. South Africa, third Test, Johannesburg.
  • 1997 - First one day hundred (107), vs. Pakistan, Independence Cup, Chennai.
  • 1999 - Makes 461 runs, including three 50s and two 100s in World Cup.
  • 1999 - Signs up with Kent for the 2000 English county season.
  • 2005 - The Nice Guy Who Finished First by Devendra Prabhudesai, released by coach Greg Chappell.
  • 2006 - Scores first century as captain, at Lahore, vs. Pakistan.

[edit] Career highlights

[edit] Tests

Test Debut: vs England, Lord's, 1996

  • Dravid's best Test batting score of 270 was made against Pakistan, Rawalpindi, 2003-2004
  • His best Test bowling figures of 1 for 18 came against West Indies, St. John's, 2001-2002
  • He is only the third Indian to score over 8,000 Test runs, following Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar.
  • Rahul Dravid is the fastest batsman in the history of Test cricket to make 9,000 runs. The Indian captain brought up the landmark in his 176th innings playing against West Indies in 2006 and broke the earlier record of Brian Lara

[edit] One-day internationals

ODI Debut: vs Sri Lanka, Singapore, 1995-1996

[edit] Stuff

Add 2001 Aus series - Slater Catch, Eden Gardens

2001 Zim tour, SL tour end 2001 - away to RSA, home to ENG, home to ZIm, away to WI 3 consecutive centuries including 200 against England, in England

2002 homes against WI, bad NZ tour late 2002

Scored 222 and 73 in 1st Test vs NZ in Ahmedabad, 2003

Dravid captained India in Tests for the frist time against New Zealand in Mohali in late 2003 following an injury to Ganguly [33], which resulted in a draw. On the subsequent tour of Australia, following a 1 and 42* in the first Test at the Gabba, Dravid and Laxman came to the crease with India at 4-85 in the following Test at the Adelaide Oval after Australia had posted 528? The pair went on to post another triple century partnership [34], with Dravid scoring 230. He later scored 70* in the second innings on the final day to guide India to it's first ever Test victory in Australia, for which he was awarded the Man of the Match award [35]. Despite scoring 49 and 90 in the Third Test in Melbourne, India lost the match. Dravid scored 38 and 90* but was unable to force a victory in the Fourth Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground, nevertheless he was named the Man of the Series for his 500? runs at ~100 [36].

Dravid was later fined by match officials after being shown on television rubbing a cough lolly onto a cricket ball in order to polish it [37].

With Ganguly again sidelined with injury on the tour to Pakistan, Dravid lead the Indians in the First Test in Multan. Dravid attracted some criticism when he declared the Indian first innings late on the second day, with Tendulkar just six runs short of a double century. However, this was softened when an innings victory was secured on the final day [38]. He later expressed regret for the decision [39]. Pakistan fought back in the Second Test in Lahore to level the series [40], with Gnaguly returning for the final Test in Rawalpindi. Dravid found himsefl batting in the second ball of the Indian innings after the first-ball dismissal of Virender Sehwag, but batted for almost two days in compiling his Test best of 270, being the ninth wicket to fall [41]. This set up an Indian victory, and the first away series victory by an Indian team in ?20 years.

He was subsequently named as the ICC International Player of the Year and also the Test player of the year, and was named in the ICC team for Tests [42].

Bad series here.... Ganguly was again injured, leaving Dravid to captain India in the Third Test in Nagpur, in which they were resoundingly defeated by ~350 runs to become the first Indian side to lose a series at home to Australia in 34 years. He managed a win the final Test in Mumbai by 10 runs,

<RSA, BANG tour> 80 adn 47* in Kolkata, 2nd Test vs RSA He scored a 160 against Bangladesh in Chittagong

The emergence of Mahendra Singh Dhoni in late 2004 saw Dravid permanently cease wicket-keeping duties in one-day internationals.

The 2004 Indian ocean tsunami lead to a onde day international fundraising match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which saw an Asian Cricket Council XI play a World XI. Playing purely as a batsman (Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara was the wicketkeeper), Dravid topscored with 75* as the Asian XI fell short of their target.

In 2005, Dravid scored centuries in both innings 110 and 135 against Pakistan in the home series in the second Test in Kolkata.

He was again selected in the ICC Test and ODI team of the year, and was a member of the ICC World XI for both Tests and ODI against Australia in the 2005 ICC Super Series. He had a lean series, scoring 19? runs in the Tests and 50 in the ODIs?

Dravid was named as captain for the 2005 Indian Oil Cup in Sri lanka following the suspension of Ganguly due to the team's slow over rates. Ganguly resumed the captaincy upon his return for the tour of Zimbabwe.

<Zim tour>

Dravid was appointed as the ODI captain for the series against Sri Lanka following the falling-out of Ganguly and coach Greg Chappell, with Ganguly injured. Even once Ganguly had recovered from injury, he was left out as the selectors persisted with the squad, which defeated Sri Lanka 6-1. Ganguly was again ignored for the series against South Africa, which saw Dravid's team tie the series at 2-2, as well as public acrimony as the team were booed by the crowd in Ganguly's hometown of Kolkata.

Dravid was appointed as Test captain for the 2005 series against Sri Lanka which followed the ODIs, despite Ganguly's retention in the team. The first two Tests resulted in a rain-affected draw and a win, before Dravid was forced to withdraw from the Thirs Test in Ahmedabad with illness. This ended a streak of 94 consecutive Test matches since his debut in 1996, and left Sehwag to lead the Indians to a 2-0 series win.

Following the decision to include both Yuvraj Singh and Ganguly in the Test team, opener Gautam Gambhir was dropped, forcing Dravid to open with Sehwag. In a drawn First Test, the pair put on 403, just 7 runs short of the world record opening partnership in Test matches, with Dravid scoring 128*. Dravid scored another century in the Second Test in Faisalabad, which was also a hgih scoring draw. However, the Indian top order collapsed on a green pitch in Karachi and defeat lead to the scrapping of Dravid's experiment as an opener. Wasim Jaffer was drafted into the team and Ganguly dropped for the England series, which was drawn 1-1. After a drawn first Test in Nagpur, India won the second in Mohali, before losing the third in Mumbai. This attracted criticism after Dravid had elected to bowl on a dry pitch in his 100th Test match.

Dravid then lead his team to a 1-0 victory over the West Indies in the Carribean in mid-2006. It was the first series victory by an Indian team since Ajit Wadekar's team in 1970?

Dravid had scored a century in the second Test, but victory was denied after a day's play was washed out and the hosts being reduced to being 8 down at the end of play. Dravid then topscored with 81 and 68 in both innings of the final Test in a low scoring affair to see his team to victory.

Dravid's reign as the ODI captain has seen better results. The Indians defeated Pakistan 4-1 away and England 5-1 at home. His captaincy has been marked by the increased flexibility in the batting line-up which has seen swing bowler Irfan Pathan and wicket-keeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni regularly batting as openers or at No. 3. A selection policy geared towards youth has also seen players such as Suresh Raina, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, Rudra Pratap Singh and Robin Uthappa playing on a more regular basis. Victory in the 1st ODI against the West Indies on the May tour, set a new world record of 17? consecutive successful ODI run chases, breaking the 14 previously held by the West Indies. Dravid was teh captain for 15 of these. This however was followed by four cosecutive defeats to lose the series 4-1.

[edit] ODI stuff

ODIs never seem remarkable

[edit] Style stuff

Stuff about away record, second innings record, use statsguru to analysse strengths and weaknesses


[edit] Awards

  • 1999 - Ceat Cricketer of the 1999 World Cup
  • 2000 - Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2000
  • 2004 - Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy
  • 2004 - Padma Shri
  • 2004 - ICC Player of The Year
  • 2004 - ICC Test Player of The Year
Preceded by
Sourav Ganguly		 Indian Test captains
2005/06		 Succeeded by
Current incumbent
Preceded by
Sourav Ganguly		 Indian One-Day captains
2005/06		 Succeeded by
Current Incumbent
Preceded by
First		 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy
2004		 Succeeded by
Andrew Flintoff & Jacques Kallis
v • d • e
Indian batsmen with a Test batting average over 50

[edit] Personal Life

Rahul Dravid married Vijeta Pendharkar, a surgeon from Nagpur, on Sunday, 4 May, 2003; their son, Samit Rahul Dravid, was born on 11 October, 2005.

[edit] Minor Records

[edit] ODI

  • The first Indian to score a hundred in the Caribbean (105). (The previous record was 90 by Sunil Gavaskar
  • He has the highest score by an Indian captain against West Indies (In all countries) (105)
  • He has the highest score among any captain in the Caribbean (past and present of all countries)
  • He has the record for least number of innings required to score 1000 runs against West Indies by an Indian (26)
    • The only person who has got it in less innings in international cricket is Jacques Kallis (25)
  • He is the leading Run scorer against West Indies for India

[edit] Test

  • First batsman to score 1000 runs in the 2006 calendar year.
  • Dravid is the seventh batsman to have both scores as the highest from both teams in a match where 40 wickets fell
  • With 496 runs Dravid scored the most runs scored by an Indian captain on foreign soil in the 2006 tour of West Indies

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Rahul Dravid plays his 100th Test; Brick by solid brick", Cricinfo, March 15 2006
  2. ^ "Statsguru - R Dravid - Tests - Series averages", Cricinfo, September 8 2006
  3. ^ "Statsguru - R Dravid - ODIs - Series averages", Cricinfo, September 8 2006
  4. ^ "Statsguru - R Dravid - Tests - Career summary", Cricinfo, September 8 2006
  5. ^ "Statsguru - R Dravid - Tests - Career summary", Cricinfo, September 8, 2006
  6. ^ "Gearing up without Ganguly", Cricinfo, October 15, 2003

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