who is ur favorite player of cricket ??

Question

the one that matches with mine get the best

Answer 1

rahul dravid the wall is the best!!!!!

Rahul Dravid


Rahul Dravid
India (IND)

Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type Off spin (OB)
Tests ODIs
Matches 100 291
Runs scored 8553 9510
Batting average 57.59 40.29
100s/50s 22/42 12/71
Top score 270 153
BallsOvers bowled 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 138/0 174/14

Dravid's style
Beginning with the reputation of being a defensive batsman who should be confined to Test cricket, 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 22 centuries in Test cricket at an average of 57.65, 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 about 10 more runs a match abroad than on Indian pitches. As of 28 October, 2005, Dravid's average in overseas Tests stood at 63.20 as against his overall Test average of 57.59, and his average for away ODI stands at 42.95 as against overall ODI average of 40.42. In matches India has won, Rahul Dravid averages 79.51 and 51.54 in Tests and ODI respectively.

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 wickets 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 whose Test average has soared to 67.56 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 ODI's 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. [1] 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.Schooled at St. Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore, and college in St. Joseph's College Of Commerce. He was coached by Keki Tarapore, Dravid has played county cricket for Kent and Scotland. He also led Karnataka to the Ranji Trophy, scoring a double century in the process in the final. He made his Test debut against England at Lords in the 2nd Test match of India's Test tour of England in 1996, and his ODI debut against Sri Lanka at Singapore in the Singer Cup tournament in the same year. 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.

Dravid was nicknamed 'Jammy' by schoolmates because his father worked for Kissan, famous for its jams and preserves.

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

Personal Records

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.[2]
Longest streak of consecutive Tests since debut (94)
Greatest number of innings since debut before being dismissed for a duck
Only player to score a century against every Test playing nation, 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.
Also the highest partnership between a captain and the vice captain.
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One Dayers
Dravid is the only batsman to have been involved in all ODI partnerships exceeding 300 runs.
First batsman to be involved in a 300 run partnership along with Sourav Ganguly in the World Cup 1999 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.

Outstanding Innings

Tests
180 vs Australia at Eden Gardens in 2001
148 vs England at Leeds in 2002
233 vs Australia at Adelaide in 2003
270 vs Pakistan at Rawalpindi in 2004
110 and 135 vs Pakistan at Kolkata in 2005



One Dayers
143 vs Sri Lanka at Taunton in 1999

153 vs New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999-2000


Captaincy

Achievements
Dravid has been credited with turning around the Indian ODI team, under his captaincy the Indian team has jumped from the 7th position in the ICC rankings to the 3rd position (as of 05/20/06).
Dravid has demonstrated a liking for 'experiments', such as sending lower order batsmen like Irfan Pathan and Mahendra Dhoni higher up the batting order. Both Pathan and Dhoni have risen to the challenge especially in ODIs.
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.
The highest winning percentage among Indian captains who have captained their sides in at least 5 ODIs. He's won 24, lost 14 and had no result in 1 - this winning percentage of 61.15 is just below Ajay Jadeja's 61.54

Criticism
Rahul Dravid has had a mixed record when leading India in Tests. India lost the Karachi Test in 2006, giving Pakistan the series 1-0. In March 2006, India lost the Mumbai Test, giving England its first Test victory in India since 1985, enabling Flintoff's men to draw the series 1-1. While the loss in Karachi could be put down to several Indian batsmen playing badly, the defeat in Mumbai was probably the result of Dravid's inexplicable decision to put England in despite winning the toss. [3]
One of Dravid's most debated decisions was taken in March 2004, when he was standing in as captain for an injured Sourav Ganguly. The Indian second inning was declared at a point when Sachin Tendulkar was at 194. In Dravid's defense, the media noted at the time that the decision had apparently been made by Ganguly [4], and Ganguly himself later admitted that it had been a mistake, [5] the wording of the statement indicating that it had not been Dravid's call.
Stalwarts such as Anil Kumble and VVS Laxman appear to have been tacitly dropped from the ODI squad; how this pro-youth policy plays out remains to be seen, and any definitive judgment is not possible before the World Cup. [6]

Answer 2

Rahul Dravid. He is THE WALL of Indian cricket team with great patience. He is matured and experienced. Morever, he is simply a gentleman.

Answer 3

Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni

Answer 4

I love Ricky Ponting...nobody can ever be such a great player like him...he is just simply perfect!!!

Answer 5

Anil Kumble without any doubt.

Answer 6

u seem a bit hard on the others .. every1 has there own choice.. news mine is sachin

Answer 7

Do you mean in the whole world? if yes,then its ANDREW FLINTOFF coz he's hot,but if its in the indiancriket team IRFAN PATHAN is the hottest guy and he's my favourite

Answer 8

who's ur favorite ????? so is he mine tooooooooo this matches ur ans i think vote mine the best ans PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Answer 9

ricky ponting

Answer 10

Mine is YUVRAJ SINGH and i can guess yours must be Dada.. though you didn't ask this!!

Answer 11

none other than yuvraj singh . he is the best