RAHUL DRAVID

RAHUL DRAVID'S ONLY T20 

On first day of the match Australia captain Steve Waugh won the toss and he decided to bat first.Australia made 445 runs from 131.5 overs in their first innings. In reply India made only 171 runs from 58.1 overs in their first innings. Rahul Dravid scored 25 runs from 82 balls with 4 boundaries in first innings.Due low total of India's first innings Australia captain Steve Waugh asked India to follow-on. India batted again for their second innings.

In second innings indian openers began solidly but they didn't scored big scores.Tendulkar also out for 10 runs only.Indain captain Ganguly played bit well but he missed half century by two runs.Usually Rahul Dravid comes at no.3 but at that time he had struggled for runs for a while so that Laxman batted at 3 and Rahul Dravid batted at no.6.At the end of the day 3 India score was 252 on the board for the loss four wickets and still trail by 22 runs.On fourth day Rahul Dravid shows his Magic.Rahul Dravid scored 180 runs from 353 balls with 20 boundaries.Rahul Dravid and Laxman created a 5th wicket record partnership with 376 runs.Finally india won the second test match by 171 runs. Rahul Dravid shows some aggressiveness when he reached his century and celebrated in uncharacteristic fashion gesturing to the press box, having been criticised in the media for his recent poor form.

RAHUL DRAVID FIRST MATCH IN ODIS

Rahul Dravid made his ODI debut on 3 April 1996 against Sri Lanka in the Singer Cup held in Singapore. He scored just three runs from 4 balls before being dismissed by Muttiah Muralitharan with caught behind by kaluwitharana but Dravid took two catches in the match and india won this match by 12 runs.

Rahul Dravid scored his first test century in January 1997 in the third test against South Africa.This is his 15th innings in the 9th test match. He scored 148 runs from 362 balls with 21 boundaries in a nine hour innings and he made 81 runs from 146 balls in the 2nd innings but indian team managed to draw the test match and Rahul Dravid got the player of the match.

RAHUL DRAVID TEST DUBUT AT  LORDS:
In 1996 June Dravid was selected for the Indian squad touring England on the backdrop of a consistent performance in domestic cricket for 5 years. Fine performances in the tour games including fifties against Gloucestershire and Leicestershire failed to earn him a place in the team for the First Test. He finally made his Test debut at Lord's on 20 June 1996 against England in the Second Test of the series at the expense of injured senior batsman Sanjay Manjrekar, who was suffering from an ankle injury, was to undergo a fitness test on the morning of the Second Test. Dravid had already been informed that he would play if Manjrekar fails the test. Ten minutes before the toss, Sandeep Patil, the then Indian coach, went up to Dravid to inform him that he was indeed going to make his debut today.

RAHUL DRAVID'S EARLY LIFE: Rahul Dravid was born on 11th January 1973 at Indore,Madhya Pradesh in a Marathi family. His family later moved to Bangalore, Karnataka. His mother tongue is Marathi. Dravid's father worked for a company that makes jams and preserves. His mother, Pushpa, was a professor of Architecture at the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore. Dravid has a younger brother named Vijay.

RAHUL DRAVID'S SCHOOLING & COLLEGE LIFE: Dravid did his schooling at St. Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore and earned a degree in commerce from St. Joseph's College of Commerce, Bangalore. He was selected to India national cricket team while studying MBA in St Joseph’s College of Business Administration.

RAHUL DRAVID'S CRICKET LIFE: Rahul Dravid started playing cricket at the age of 12, and represented Karnataka at the under-15, the under-17 and the under-19 levels. Former cricketer Keki Tarapore first noticed Dravid's talent while coaching at a summer camp in the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Dravid scored a century for his school team. He also played as wicket-keeper. Dravid made his Ranji Trophy debut in February 1991, while he was still attending college. Playing alongside future Indian teammates Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath against Maharashtra in Pune, he scored 82 runs in the match, which ended in a draw. His first full season was in 1991–92, when he scored two centuries and finished up with 380 runs at an average of 63.3, getting selected for the South Zone cricket team in the Duleep Trophy.

Rahul Dravid is a former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.  Hailed as The Wall, Dravid was named one of the best five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2000 and received the Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year awards at the inaugural ICC awards ceremony in 2004.In December 2011, he became the first non-Australian cricketer to deliver the Bradman Oration in Canberra.As of October 2012, Dravid is the fourth-highest run scorer in Test cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis, and is only the second Indian cricketer, after Tendulkar to score 10,000 runs both in Tests and in ODIs. In 2004, after completing his century against Bangladesh in Chittagong, he became the first and the only player till date to score a century in all the ten Test-playing countries.As of October 2012, he holds the record for the most number of catches taken by a player (non-wicket-keeper) in Test cricket, with 210.In August 2011, after receiving a surprise call in the ODI series against England, Dravid declared his retirement from ODIs as well as Twenty20 International (T20I), and in March 2012, he announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket. He appeared in the 2012 Indian Premier League as captain of the Rajasthan Royals.Rahul Dravid, along with Glenn McGrath were honoured during the seventh annual Bradman Awards function in Sydney on 1 November 2012.Dravid has also been honoured with the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan award, India's fourth and third highest civilian awards.In 2014, Rahul Dravid joined the GoSports Foundation, Bangalore as a member of their board of advisors. In collaboration with GoSports Foundation he is mentoring India's future Olympians and Paralympians as part of the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme.

RAHUL DRAVID'S PERSONAL LIFE: On 4 May 2003 he married Vijeta Pendharkar, a surgeon from Nagpur. They have two children: Samit, born in 2005, and Anvay, born in 2009. Rahul can proficiently speak Marathi, Hindi, Kannada and English.