Rahul Dravid Profile
By admin on Apr 25, 2011 in Uncategorized
Full Name: Rahul Sharad Dravid
Born: January 11, 1973, Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Nickname: The Wall, Jammy
Height: 5 ft 11 inch
Batting Style: Right-hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm offbreak
Major Teams: India, Scotland, Asia XI, ICC World XI, Karnataka, Kent, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Rajasthan Royals
Test Debut: June 20th 1996 v England
ODI Debut: 3rd April 1996 v Sri Lanka
Rahul Dravid also known as the Wall of Indian cricket is one of the most prolific batsman India have ever produced. He is the regular member of Indian team in test side since 1996. He was also appointed the captain of Indian cricket team in October 2005 and he resigned from the post in September 2007.
His team mates use to call him the wall because he has the ability to bat for longer duration as and when his team required. He is the second Indian batsman after Sachin Tendulkar to score more than 12000 runs in test cricket and fifth in the world to score that much of runs at international level.
His achievement in ODI’s is also phenomenal with more than 10000 runs to his name and on 14th February 2007, he became the sixth player in the history of ODI cricket to score more than 10000 runs and only third Indian after Sachin and Sourav Ganuly.
He is the first batsman to score test century against all 10 test playing nation. He also currently holds the record of most number of catches in test cricket with 191 catches to his name.
Till now he is going strong in test cricket and with his fitness he is still looking strong to play for more than two-three years from now on.
Rahul Dravid Cricket Statistics |
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| Batting Records | Tests | ODI’s |
| Matches | 150 | 339 |
| Innings | 259 | 313 |
| Runs Scored | 12063 | 10765 |
| Batting Averages | 52.44 | 39.43 |
| Strike Rates | 42.33 | 71.17 |
| 100s | 31 | 12 |
| 50s | 59 | 82 |
| 4s | 1516 | 941 |
| 6s | 18 | 42 |
| Highest Score | 270 | 153 |
| Bowling Records | ||
| Balls Overs Bowled | 120 | 186 |
| Wickets | 1 | 4 |
| Bowling Average | 39.00 | 42.50 |
| Economy Rate | 1.95 | 5.48 |
| Best Bowling | 1/18 | 2/43 |
| Catches/Stumping | 200 | 196/14 |
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Rahul | Mar 18, 2010 | Reply
Rahul is a wall of India he is such a good player in India cricket team in middle order
Amar | Sep 4, 2010 | Reply
Rahulis verry cool man.I am his verry big fan.
He is best batsman in world cricket.I have verry impresed of his charactor & batting style.
I love you Rahul.
sachin | Dec 25, 2010 | Reply
Can all indians sent a letter to BCCI about bringing Rahul Dravid back in ODI. He deserves and Indian team requires him at # 3rd spot.
hitesh | Jan 5, 2011 | Reply
Hi,
Congrats
Archu | Apr 4, 2011 | Reply
dravd is the second god n india
shine | Jun 25, 2011 | Reply
dravid is the second god of india
shine | Jun 25, 2011 | Reply
i m ur biggest fan pankha cooler ac
rahul attri | Jul 14, 2011 | Reply
world class batsman , wall that never collapsed , cool, hansome ,
sunil modi | Jul 30, 2011 | Reply
Dravid simply rockz!! He’s d best player 4 India so far…and he’s been dere 4 India in almost every pressure situation..evn more than Sachin. I love Rahul mor than Sachin, ‘cos he’s realy done a lot more for India than for himself!!
AMV | Jul 30, 2011 | Reply
rahul dravid one and one army save indians heart when we are loosing any internatnal team so i saloot him gret wall of india
AMOL CHAVAN | Jul 31, 2011 | Reply
Rahul dravid is god . You are my no. One cricket player . You are the wall of Indian cricket no any one like you .
Shashi shukla | Aug 1, 2011 | Reply
i am great fan of Rahul Dravid.He is a classic player and his character is best. He is not wall,he is a rock of team INDIA.
Mahendra.K.S | Aug 2, 2011 | Reply
Whan history of world cricket write no dout name of rahul also come.he is one of all time great batesman ..his copy book shot.give so pleasur . I thing no player of world cricket play like David.in future he also remember like badman and sachin and Lara.
Deepu shaman | Aug 9, 2011 | Reply
RAHUL DRAVID ONE OF THE COOL CRICKETER AND THE LEGEND OF TEST CRICKET BATTING.
HE SAVES TO INDIA SO MANY NOT TO LOST TEST MATCH
Mahesh Daniel | Aug 21, 2011 | Reply
rahul sir , odi returnment decision correct. i welcome your decision sir.
UDAIYARAJ | Sep 7, 2011 | Reply
This is the end of a great Inning.
Sunil Kumar | Sep 15, 2011 | Reply
hi dravid iam your no.1 fan i love your shots
vishal | Sep 23, 2011 | Reply
hi rahul iam no.1 fan of you i love your shots
vishal | Sep 23, 2011 | Reply
i am no.1 fan of rahul dravid i love his shots
vishal | Sep 23, 2011 | Reply
rahul dravid is a himalya mountain of cricket he is a never defatable man in any situation i,m sallut him i,m very big fan of rahul dravid
shivendu | Nov 8, 2011 | Reply
He is best of best if u see him playing he look like play a god play cool and copy book shot so pleasure if we see him.nodoubt he is super batesman of 21 century.
Deepu shaman | Nov 16, 2011 | Reply
If I want to discribe the Game Cricket I would just say RAHUL DRAVID.
The Wall
Mr. Dependable
Mr. Cool
& now
Mr. Cricket
Ketan {K.D.} | Nov 25, 2011 | Reply
Ragul dravid birth day and my birth day same day and same month. I like dravid stroke,style and many more.
Shailendiran | Feb 2, 2012 | Reply
I AM GREAT FAN OF RAHUL,YOUR MY ICON.
Ajay sharma | Mar 2, 2012 | Reply
Mr Rahul Dravid is a real Technical Batsman. He never argued about batting order. He is successful in bowling batting keeping & Catching & Fielding etc Sectors.Indian Peoples are miss him & his batting style.
Ketan Barve | Mar 9, 2012 | Reply
Mr Rahul Dravid is a real Technical Batsman. He never argued about batting order. He is successful in bowling batting keeping & Catching & Fielding etc Sectors.Indian Peoples are miss him & his batting style.
..Ketan Barve..
Ketan Barve | Mar 9, 2012 | Reply
“Congrats on a Fantastic, Superb
International Career! The Great
Legend Rahul Dravid !!The wall will be
miss!!,”
rameshgandhi | Mar 10, 2012 | Reply
RAHUL DRAVID IAM BIGGGGGG AND BIGGGG FAN U COOL AC AND AC KA NAAM RAHUL DRAVID HAI BEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD AND OUR THE SEA I LOVE DRAVID SIR BEST LUCK U DRAVID
prakash pandey | Mar 30, 2012 | Reply
Dravid is amazing
Tyson | Apr 3, 2012 | Reply
HUGE FAN OF RAHUL…LOVE, LOVE, LOVE
Jeremy | Apr 4, 2012 | Reply
Rahul dravid is like an oasis in the desert.. now the oasis is illusion for the indian cricket…. without the oasis no one can survive in the desert…. this is posted by a great fan of dravid in facebook.. rahul sir rocks…
ramraj | Apr 28, 2012 | Reply