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Rahul Sharad Dravid (/ˌrəhuːl drəvɪd/ (About this soundlisten); born 11 January 1973) is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national team. He is the Director of Cricket Operations at National Cricket Academy, Bengaluru, India. He also monitors the progress of India A and India under-19 cricket teams. Before this he was Head Coach for the India Under-19 and India A teams from 2016 to 2019.[2] Under his coaching, under-19 team was runners up at 2016 u-19 Cricket World Cup and were winners at 2018 u-19 Cricket World Cup. In 2019, BCCI appointed Dravid as Head of NCA. Known for his sound batting technique,[3] Dravid has scored nearly 25,000 runs in international cricket and is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.[4][5][6] He is colloquially known as Dependable or Mr. Dependable, and often referred to as The Great Wall or The Wall by Indian cricket followers
Rahul Dravid's Biography
He was born on 11 January 1973 in Indore, but moved to Bangalore. He was pretty good in academics. His father was also a cricket lover and used to take Rahul and his younger brother to watch cricket matches. This is where he developed a liking for cricket. He started playing professional cricket from the age of 12.
Beginning of Cricket Career
He represented the Karnataka state team in U-15, U-17 and U-19 age groups, leading to a place in state’s Ranji Trophy team. He made his Ranji debut for Karnataka in the 1991-92 season.
He had a terrific first season and aggregated a total of 380 runs at an average of 63.3. It included a couple of hundreds. He was then selected to play for South Zone in the Duleep Trophy.
International debut and rise to prominence
Jammy played his first international match in the ODI series against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka. A couple of months later, he made his Test debut against England at Lord’s, scoring 95 runs in his debut innings.
He received a tag of slow batsman in the ODIs and had to struggle to get a place in the ODI team.
He overcame this criticism, improved his ODI batting and cemented his place in the ODI team too. Three years after his debut, he was in top form in the 1999 World Cup. With 461 runs under his belt, he became the highest run-getter of the tournament.
Apart from batting, he kept wickets in ODIs for India for a substantial period. He has affected 84 dismissals as wicketkeeper including 71 catches and 13 stumpings. In Tests, as a non-wicketkeeper, he has a world record of taking most number of catches (210).
Captaincy
Rahul led India in 25 Tests and won 8 of them, losing 6. The winning percentage of 32 doesn’t quite reflect his captaincy skills. His ODI numbers are better. India won 42 out of the 79 ODIs under him.
Indian cricket team’s debacle at the 2007 World Cup was one of the lowest points in Dravid’s captaincy career.
IPL
Dravid was the icon player of the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) franchisee owned by Vijay Mallya. He was the highest run scorer for RCB in IPL 2008. He later on also played for the Rajasthan Royals.
He has played 89 matches in the IPL and scored 2174 runs at an average of 28.23 and strike rate of 115.52. He scored 11 half centuries in the IPL.
Retirement
Dravid announced his retirement from the limited overs format in 2011, while he played his last test match against Australia in January 2012.
