Rahul Sharad Dravid (born 11 January 1973 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh) is an Indian cricketer, and the current captain of the Indian cricket team. He is one of the top-ranked batsmen in world cricket and started his international cricket career in 1996.
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 23 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. 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.
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.
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.
Also 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, bettering the previous record set by Lara by 1 innings.
He has the best career test average among the contemporary test batsmen(58.55 after 103 tests).
With 7 consecutive scores of 50 or more Dravid has bettered the previous Indian record of 6 consecutive 50+ scores 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 4th along with Lara to score more runs in away tests. Only Tendulkar, Border and IVA Richards had scored more away runs than him.
Best career average among the players who had played 100 or more tests.
Best away average among the players who had played 50 or more away tests.
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.
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.
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.
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