Wednesday 18 May 2011

RAHUL SHARAD DRAVID



Personal information
Full nameRahul Sharad Dravid
Born11 January 1973 (age 38)
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
NicknameThe Wall, Jammy
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Batting styleRight-handed
Bowling styleRight arm off spin
RoleBatsman, Wicketkeeper



Rahul Sharad Dravid (Kannada: ರಾಹುಲ್ ಶರದ್ ದ್ರಾವಿಡ್,  (born 11 January 1973) is one of the most experienced cricketers 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 honored as one of the 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. On 27 December 2010, he took his 200th Test catch to get rid of Dale Steyn.
Known as "the Wall" due to his ability to bat for long durations, and "Jammy" due to his endorsement of Kissan, a jam company, and also because his father worked for Kissan, Dravid holds multiple world cricketing records. He is the second Indian batsman, after Sachin Tendulkar, and the third international player to have scored more than 12,000 runs in Test cricket. On 14 February 2007, he became the sixth player in history and the third Indian (after Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly), to score 10,000 runs in ODI cricket. He is the first and the only batsman to score a century in all ten Test playing nations. With 200 catches, Dravid currently holds the world record for the highest 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.

Personal life

Dravid was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh into a Maharashtrian Deshastha family living in Karnataka. His paternal ancestors were Iyers from Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu.He grew up in Bangalore, Karnataka. He has a younger brother, Vijay. Both the brothers grew up in a simple middle class atmosphere. Dravid's father worked for Kissan, a company known for producing jams and preserves and thus he earned the nickname Jammyfrom his teammates at St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore. 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, Karnataka. On 4 May 2003, he married Dr. Vijeta Pendharkar, a surgeon from Nagpur and on 11 October 2005, their son, Samit, was born. On 27 April 2009, Vijeta gave birth to their second son, Anvay.

International career


Dravid in action during a Test match
Dravid had a disappointing start to his career making his debut in one-dayers against Sri Lankan cricket team in the Singer Cup in singapore immediately after World Cup in March 1996, replacing Vinod Kambli. Subsequently, he was dropped from the team, until he was picked again for the tour of England.
He then made his debut in the Second Test against England along with Sourav Ganguly,when Sanjay Manjrekar got injured after the first Test match on that tour.
Rahul scored 95 and held his position on Manjrekar's return for the Third Test, scoring 84. After moderate performance in 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 inJohannesburg, scoring his maiden century with 148 and 81, the top score in each innings to claim his first man of the match award. He made his first half-century against Pakistan in the Sahara Cup in 1996, scoring 90 in his 10th ODI.[25]
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. 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. He 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. He had a moderate season in the subcontinent in early 1999, scoring 269 runs at an average of 38.42 with one century before scoring 239 at an average of 39.8 including a century against New Zealand in late 1999. 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.

Dravid gestures while fielding during a Test match against Sri Lanka in Galle in 2008.
In the second test of a three match test series against Australia at Kolkata in 2001, Dravid joined hands with VVS Laxman to produce one of the greatest comeback victories in the history of the game. Following on, the pair put on 376 runs for the fifth wicket in the second innings of the match. Dravid scored 180 while Laxman made 281. Though Dravid ended up second-best, it remains one of his greatest performances till date. Later that year in Port Elizabeth against South Africa, he made a crucial match-saving 87 runs in the second innings to deny South Africa the win.
2002 was the year, when Dravid started to emerge out of Tendulkar's shadow and established himself as India's premier Test batsman. In the month of April, at Georgetown, West Indies in first test match of the series, he scored an unbeaten 144 in the first innings after being hit by a Mervyn Dillon delivery. Later that year, he raked up four consecutive centuries against England (3) and West Indies (1). In August 2002, against England at Headingley Stadium, Leeds in the third test match of the series, he scored a 148 in the first innings on a seamer-friendly to set up a famous Indian win. He won the man of the match award for this performance. Dravid's astonishing aggregate of 602 runs in the four match test series against England also fetched him the man of the series award.
In 2003-2004 season, Dravid scored three double centuries, one each against New Zealand, Australia and Pakistan. Against Australia at Adelaide in second match of the four match series, the batting pair of Dravid and VVS Laxman proved to be Australia's nemesis again. In the first innings, India were looking down the barrel at 4 wickets down for 85 runs in reply to Australia's massive 556 when the duo joined hands. By the time their partnership was broken, the pair had put on 303 runs. Laxman was dismissed for 148 while Dravid went on make 233. At that time, this was the highest individual score by an Indian batsman overseas. By the time Dravid was done, India was only 33 short of Australia's first innings score. Dravid followed this with an unbeaten 72 under immense pressure in the second innings to set up a famous victory. Dravid scored 619 runs in that four-match series against Australia at an average of 103.16 and won the man of the series award. During the later part of the season, Dravid, in Ganguly's absence, led India to its first test victory over Pakistan in Pakistan in the first test match at Multan. In the third and the final match of the series At Rawalpindi, Dravid stroked a masterly 270 to take India to a historic test series win over Pakistan. In 2010 scored 191 run in inning to reach 31st test century.
On 16 August 2009 Dravid was called back to the Indian ODI team following his good show at that years IPL and the struggle of the younger players' problems against the short ball.

Dravid in World Cups

Dravid was top scorer in the 7th World Cup (1999), scoring 461 runs. He is the only Indian to score two back to back centuries at the World Cup. He scored 110 vs Kenya and followed it with a masterly 145 against Sri Lanka in Taunton, in a match where he kept wickets. He was vice captain during 2003 World cup where India reached the final, serving his team in the dual capacity of a batsman and wicket keeper to accommodate an additional batsman, a move that paid huge dividends for India. Dravid was the captain during the 2007 cricket world cupin West Indies, where Indian cricket team had a dismal campaign.

Personal records

Tests

  • Dravid holds the world record for being the first (and only) non-wicketkeeper to take 200 catches in Test cricket. As of 27-12-2010, he is way ahead of Mark Waugh (181 catches) andRicky Ponting (177 catches)
  • Dravid is the 2nd Indian (3rd in World) to score more than 12,000 test runs.
  • Has been involved in the most century partnerships in Test history - 85 (23 nov 2009).
  • 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.
  • 2nd longest streak of consecutive Tests since debut (93 + 1 in ICC XI) missed 95th test at Ahmedabad due to fever, behind Adam Gilchrist (96).
  • First player to score a century against every Test playing nation away from home,
  • 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). Only Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad have scored more runs in a partnership for India, 413 vs New Zealand in Chennai (6-11 Jan 1956).
  • Dravid is one among the only three batsmen to hit Test centuries in four consecutive innings. The other two are Jack Fingleton and Alan Melville. Dravid achieved this by hitting scores of 115, 148, 217 and 100* in three successive matches against England and one against the West Indies. Only Everton Weekes, with centuries in five consecutive innings, has achieved a longer sequence of consecutive Test hundreds.
  • With scores of 50 or more in 7 consecutive Tests Dravid is behind only to Tendulkar (8) and Gambhir (11) among Indian batsmen. Gambhir and Viv Richards hold the world record with 11.
  • He is currently 2nd among batsmen who have scored most away runs in Tests (6430 as of April 2009). Only Sachin Tendulkar (7165) has scored more away Test runs.
  • He has played 150 innings of 94 tests at number 3. He has scored more than 8000 runs at this position. Both feats are world records.
  • 2nd Indian batsman to score twin hundreds in a Test twice, after Sunil Gavaskar. Gavaskar and Ponting are the only batsmen to score twin hundreds in a Test thrice.
  • One of only three Indians to score 5 double hundreds.(each bigger than the previous 200* vs Zimbabwe, 217 vs England, 222 vs New Zealand, 233 vs Australia, 270 vs Pakistan). In fact, along with Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar, he is one of only three Indians to score 190+ on seven occasions.
  • Partnering with Tendulkar, has scored more runs than any other pair, excluding opening pairs. They are the 3rd best in terms of total number of partnership runs scored by a pair in test cricket.
  • Dravid has faced highest number of deliveries in test cricket, more than Allan Border's previous record of 27002 deliveries.
  • 2nd highest number of fifties in test cricket after Australia's Allan Border (63) and jointly shared with compatriot Sachin Tendulkar (59)
  • Rahul Dravid is the third batsman in the world after compatriot Sachin Tendulkar and Australia's Ricky Ponting to reach the 12000-run milestone in test cricket.

One Dayers

  • Dravid is the 3rd Indian (6th in World) to score more than 10,000 ODI runs.
Partnership Records
  • The only batsman to have been involved in two ODI partnerships exceeding 300 runs.
  • First batsman to be involved in a 300 run partnership in a Cricket World Cup along with Sourav Ganguly in the 1999 World Cup match against Sri Lanka at Taunton.
  • Involved in all three highest 4th wicket partnerships against South Africa, two with Yuvraj Singh.
  • 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.
  • Involved in highest 3rd wicket partnership in ODI history with Sachin Tendulkar - 237 runs against Kenya in 1999.
World Cup Records
  • He was the leading run scorer in the 1999 World Cup with 461 runs.
  • Has the 2nd highest score (145) by a wicketkeeper in a World Cup behind AC Gilchrist(149).
  • He was only the second wicketkeeper-batsman after Zimbabwean Dave Houghton to score an ODI hundred in the World Cup.
  • He was the second batsman after Mark Waugh to score back-to-back hundreds in the World Cup
Captaincy Records
  • He is tied with Sachin Tendulkar in fourth place for having captained India in the most victorious matches
Other Records
  • Has the record of not being dismissed on duck for 120 consecutive ODI matches
  • 3rd Highest number of fifties, after India's Sachin Tendulkar (93) and Pakistan's Inzamam-ul-Haq (83) at 82.

Captaincy

Achievements

  • Rahul Dravid is only one of two Indians to be the top scorer in a World Cup (the other is Sachin Tendulkar). He amassed 461 runs in the 1999 World Cup, the first World Cup he played.
  • Rahul Dravid led India to a historic Test series win, against the West Indies in their home soil in 2006. Since 1971, India had never won a Test series in the West Indies. This was also their first prominent series win outside the Indian subcontinent (barring the win against Zimbabwe in 2005) since 1986.
  • Under Dravid's captaincy the Indian team tied the previous record of most consecutive One-Day International wins for an Indian team thus equalling the record run that the Indian team had achieved under Sourav Ganguly in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa (8). This was later beaten by Mahendra Singh Dhoni who led Indian team to 9 consecutive victories in 2008-2009.
  • During his captaincy the Indian team broke the record for most consecutive won matches in One-Day Internationals while batting second (previously held by the West Indies). For this 17 match run, Dravid was the captain for 15 matches and Sourav Ganguly was the captain for the other two. This streak was broken on 20 May 2006, when India lost to the West Indies by one run, at Sabina Park, Jamaica.
  • Rahul Dravid was the first captain to lead India to a Test match victory against South Africa on South African soil.
  • He became only the third captain from India to win a Test series in England. The other two captains being Kapil Dev (1986) and Ajit Wadekar (1971).
  • He has hit 10,000 runs in both tests and one day internationals, making him only the third batsmen after Tendulkar and Lara to achieve this feat. Only Ricky Ponting has since equalled this feat.
  • He holds the record of number of catches in Test cricket by a non-wicket keeper.

Teams

International

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

Indian first-class

Indian Premier League

English county

Timeline

  • 1973 - Born 11 January 1973, in Indore
  • 1984 - Attended a summer coaching camp at KSCA's Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, where his talents were spotted by former cricketer turned coach Keki Tarapore (There was another Keki Tarapore [Mumbai, deceased] with whom people confuse this gentleman who also passed on.)
  • Scores his first century in an unofficial match for his school team St. Joseph's against St. Anthony's.
  • Scores a double hundred for the Karnataka schools team which he smashed against Kerala.
  • Selected for the under-15 Karnataka team.
  • Stops keeping wickets on advice from Gundappa Vishwanath, Roger Binny, Brijesh Patel and coach Keki Tarapore.
  • 1985 - Gets recognised in Bangalore as a prodigy after becoming the first ever to score a century in the Cottonian Shield inter school tournament (Juniors) for St. Josephs High School against Baldwin Boys' High School, in the final.
  • 1991 - Ranji debut against Maharashtra.
  • 1996 - Double century in Ranji finals, vs. Tamil Nadu.
  • 1996 - Test debut at Lords, England after Sanjay Manjrekar was injured and Navjot Singh Sidhu flew back home after a fracas with captain Azharuddin. Makes 95.
  • 1997 - Maiden Test hundred (148), vs. South Africa, third Test, Johannesburg.
  • 1997 - First one day hundred (107), vs. Pakistan, Independence Cup, Chennai.
  • 1998 - Dropped from One Day squad for the ODI tournament in Bangladesh.
  • 1999 - Hundred in both innings (190,103) against New Zealand in Hamilton.
  • 1999 - Makes 461 runs, including three 50s and two 100s in World Cup.
  • 1999 - Signs up with Kent for the 2000 English county season.
  • 2001 - Scores 180, while V. V. S. Laxman makes 281, in a fifth-wicket stand of 376 as India defeat Australia at Eden Gardens, ending 16 Test-winning streak by Australia.
  • 2004 - Career best 270 against Pakistan, at Rawalpindi.
  • 2005 - Succeeds Sourav Ganguly as Test and ODI captain.
  • 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.
  • 2006 - Contributed in a remarkable 410 runs partnership with Sehwag at Multan.
  • 2006 - Leads India to snatch their first ever test victory on South African Soil.
  • 2007 - Leads India in the 2007 Cricket World Cup, held in West Indies.
  • 2007 - After India's tour of England, resigns from Indian captaincy.
  • 2007 - Dropped from the Indian ODI Squad after poor series against Australia.
  • 2008 - Reached the landmark of 10000 Test runs, in the first Test of the series against South Africa in Chennai on 29 March
  • 2009 - Reached the catching record for a fielder in test cricket with 182 catches, in the third test against New Zealand in Wellington on 6 April.
  • 2010 - Reached the landmark of taking 200 catches by a non-wicketkeeper in tests, against South Africa at Durban on 28 December

Career highlights

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 10,000 Test runs, following Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar.
  • He is the fastest batsman in the history of Test cricket to make 9,000 runs. The former Indian captain brought up the landmark in his 176th innings playing against West Indies in 2006 and broke the earlier record of Brian Lara
  • He has the most catches for a fielder in Test cricket with 200 catches, beating Mark Waugh's tally of 181 catches when he caught New Zealand opener Tim McIntosh in New Zealand's second innings of the third test at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.
Break-up of catches against each country in Tests vs Australia: 47 in 29 Tests vs Bangladesh: 13 in 7 Tests vs England: 26 in 17 Tests vs New Zealand: 17 in 15 Tests vs Pakistan: 19 in 15 Tests vs South Africa: 21 in 20 Tests vs Sri Lanka: 16 in 20 Tests vs West Indies: 20 in 17 Tests vs Zimbabwe: 21 in 9 Tests
Milestone Catches Catch No. 1: Nasser Hussain off Javagal Srinath in first Test. Catch No. 50: Ricky Ponting off Harbhajan Singh in 43rd Test. Catch No. 100: Shane Warne off Harbhajan Singh in 79th Test. Catch No. 150: Andrew Strauss off Anil Kumble in 110th Test. Catch No. 200: Dale Steyn off Harbhajan Singh in 149th Test.

One-Day Internationals

ODI Debut: vs Sri Lanka, Singapore, 1995–1996
  • Dravid's best ODI batting score of 153 was made against New Zealand, Hyderabad, 1999–2000
  • His best ODI bowling figures of 2 for 43 came against South Africa, Kochi, 1999–2000
  • 6th player and 3rd Indian to score 10,000 runs. He broke the barrier by scoring 66 against Sri Lanka and levelling the series 1-1.
  • Only player to be involved in 2 partnerships of 300+.
  • In one-day internationals the highest is 318, by left-hander Sourav Ganguly (183) and the right-handed Rahul Dravid (145) for India v Sri Lanka in Taunton during the 1999 World Cup.
  • The other higher stand in ODIs - 331 - involved Dravid and right-hander, Sachin Tendulkar came in Hyderabad later in 1999 against New Zealand.

Achievements

See also: List of international cricket centuries by Rahul Dravid

Awards

International information
National sideIndia
Test debut (cap 150)20 June 1996 v England
Last Test2 January 2011 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 339)3 April 1996 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI30 September 2009 v West Indies
ODI shirt no.19
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1990 – presentKarnataka
2003Scotland
2000Kent
2008 – 2010Royal Challengers Bangalore
2011– presentRajasthan Royals
Career statistics
CompetitionTestODIFCLA
Matches155339282444
Runs scored12,06310,76522,44615,147
Batting average52.4439.4355.6942.54
100s/50s31/5912/8262/11321/111
Top score270153270153
Balls bowled120186617477
Wickets1454
Bowling average39.0042.5054.60105.25
5 wickets in innings0000
10 wickets in match0000
Best bowling1/182/432/162/43
Catches/stumpings200/0196/14341/1233/17






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