Rahul dravid family biography robert
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Rahul Dravid Height, Age, Wife, Children, Family, Biography
ODI- 3 April 1996 against Sri Lanka at Singapore
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• Kent
• Canterbury
• Marylebone Cricket Club
• Royal Challengers Bangalore
• Rajasthan Royals
• Most balls faced in Test cricket (31258 balls)
• Most nineties in Test cricket (10)
• Most catches by a non-wicketkeeper in Test cricket (210 catches)
• Most consecutive innings without a duck in international cricket (173)
• Most consecutive ODI innings without a duck (120)
• First Indian captain to win a Test match on South African soil in 2006
• Only Indian batter to score four consecutive hundreds
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Rahul dravid
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(Focused primarily on his One-day Career, since his test innings is still on)
Last Friday, Rahul Sharad Dravid was playing his farewell ODI - emotional moment is it? I didn’t feel so, because his ODI career had effectively ended 4 years ago when he was dumped out of a Young Team India which started looking ahead and rightly so. Many are still angry on the selectors (that time it was Dilip Vengsarkar) but for me that looked a right move since Dravid was showing signs of slowing down and his participation in ODIs was allowing his impeccable test record to take a beating. He was very unwisely recalled for the Champions Trophy in 2009, dropped and recalled once again for the series against England. It’s a plainly ridiculous move and I have always believed Srikanth’s selection to be extremely similar to his batting - Cracker-jack.
The very first memory I have of Rahul Dravid was when he repeatedly used to churn out huge scores for Karnataka, in the early nineties. Those days “The Hindu” had a habit of publishing a detailed score-card of first class matches as well. Along with Dravid, I keely followed Amarjit Kaypee, MV Sridhar, KP Bhaskar and Santhosh Jedhe to name a few. Ironically, all these immensely talented cricketers got a raw deal from the s