Only In 2006, it was announced that he would remain captain of the Indian team up to the However, after the series against England, he stepped down as the Indian captain due to personal reasons. … Dravid was selected for the Indian squad touring I told him he will be playing. Having conceded a 260 runs lead in the first innings of the Second Test at Rahul Dravid played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2008, 2009 and 2010. He is mentally strong. However, he was ignored by selectors for the subsequent one-day tri-series. However, he was ignored by selectors for the subsequent one-day tri-series.
I knew I had some more breathing space ... a few more Test matches at least ... gave me a lot of confidence scoring 95 here and 80 at Trent Bridge ... as a player and as a person.Dravid fielding during a Test match against Sri Lanka in My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity, and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. He received scant support from his teammates as India were bowled out for 286 and lost the test.Rahul Dravid was dropped from the ODI team in 2009, but was selected again for an ODI series in Dravid announced his retirement from Test and domestic cricket on 9 March 2012, after the Dravid had always been keen on further honing his batting skills in testing English conditions by playing in county cricket. 14 runs from two games in the By now, Dravid had been branded as a Test specialist. He is not like the other guys who love scoring off every ball, and there is no real weakness in his game either. Dravid went back to play for In 2008, he made 93 runs in the first innings of the Perth test, the highest score of the match, to help India win and make the series 1â2. Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? Dravid concluded a successful stint with Kent aggregating 1221 runs from 16 first class matches(15 county games and 1 tour game against Zimbabwe) at an average of 55.50 including 2 hundreds and 8 fifties. There was too much negativity surrounding Indian cricket marred by match fixing controversy. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. He had contrasting fortunes in the long and the shorter format of the game.
In January 2004, Dravid was found guilty of ball tampering during an ODI with Zimbabwe. Im Jahr 2004 wurde er vom ICC sowohl zum Player of the Year als auch zum Testplayer of the Year gewählt. 14 runs from two games in the By now, Dravid had been branded as a Test specialist. She is a Medical Surgeon by profession. Dravid himself had been struggling to score runs in Tests for quite some time now.Dravid made the most of this opportunity. Rahul Dravid is a retired Indian international cricketer.in both Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket in matches organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Wright was particularly impressed with Dravid's performance on that tour, especially his twin hundreds at Hamilton. After a barren run in Test matches in 2008, Dravid came under increasing media pressure to retire or be dropped. In the beginning, he was known as a defensive batsman who should be confined to Test cricket, and was dropped from the ODI squad due to a low strike rate. His co-debutante Ganguly made his county debuted in the same match, albeit for the opposite team.Kent offer had come as a welcome change for Dravid. In their last county game of the season, Kent needed one bonus point to prevent themselves from being relegated to the Second Division. In the first test at Lord's, in reply to England's 474, Dravid scored an unbeaten 103, his first hundred at the ground where he debuted in 1996. Congratulations on this excellent venture⦠what a great idea!I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like. Dravid scored 73 not out in the 2nd innings guiding Kent to a six wicket victory as Warne went wicketless. He is one of the seven batsmen to … For me, growing up, I dreamt of playing for India. Dravid, standing in only his second test as team's captain, took a bold and controversial decision during First Test at Dravid was appointed the captain for the Indian team for During India's unsuccessful tour of England in 2011, in which their 4–0 loss cost them the top rank in Test cricket, Dravid made three centuries. The newly appointed vice-captain had to leave the county championship temporarily, missing two championship games and two one day games, to fulfill his national commitment. Later he played for Rajasthan Royals and led it to finals of Dravid is known for his technique, and had been one of the best batsmen for the Indian cricket team. His nickname of 'The Wall' in Dravid was involved in two of the largest partnerships in ODIs: a 318-run partnership with Also, Dravid is the current world record holder for the highest percentage of runs scored in matches won under a single captain, where the captain has won more than 20 Tests.He was named one of the Wisden cricketers of the year in 2000. In 2007, he was dropped from the Indian ODI Squad following poor series against Australia.
In the Second Test against England in Mohali, he scored 136 runs, putting on a triple-century stand with After reaching 10,000 test runs milestone, he said, "It's a proud moment for sure. However, in a period of his career, he began consistently scoring runs in ODIs as well, earning him the ICC Player of the year award.