50 Things You should know about Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid, who was the symbol of strong and defensive batting style in Indian cricket team and the part of Indian batting trio, is now in under pressure because of his bad performance both of Test and ODI. Now, recently this year, he announced his resignation as captain of India team. And he was also dropped from the Indian ODI squad following poor series against England and Australia in 2007. No doubt, he is a talented batsman and still he has many talents to give his team. That is why; this batsman is working hard to come back in the main squad of Indian ODI team. And I hope he will come back soon showing his impressive performance.

I know, you are excited to know about this batsman who is the pillar of Indian batting side. However, I have collected a lost of 50 things about Rahul Dravid where from you know his private life to cricket career.

1. His full name Rahul Sharad Dravid.
2. He is a right-hand batsman and right-arm offbreak.
3. He was born on January 11, 1973, Indore, Madhya Pradesh but he grew up Bangalore, Karnataka.
4. His zodiac sign is Capricorn by birth.
5. He can speak both Kannada and Marathi.
6. His parents are Sharad-Pushpa Dravid.
7. He has a brother named Vijay.
8. His father worked for Kissan, a company known for james and preserves so, he earned a nickname from his teammates at St. Joseph’s, Bangalor.
9. Rahul Dravid earned his degree in commerce from St. Joseph's College of Commerce.
10. In early days, he used to play HOCKY but it was school coach’s advice that made that important shifting in thinking, rest is history.
11. Sunil Gavaskar said that His batting technique is THE BEST in business to say the least. Straight from coaching-manual.
12. On 14th September, 2007 he announced his resignation as captain of India team.
13. Then in 2007, he was dropped from the Indian ODI Squad following poor series against England and Australia.
14. He married Dr. Vijeta Pendharkar, a surgeon from Nagpur on May 4, 2003. And they have one son name Samit who was born on October 11, 2005.
15. He is an Indian cricketer and the former captain of the Indian national cricket team.
16. Only he has the highest Test batting average of 55.26 among all other Indian batsmen.
17. Rahul Dravid is one of only three Indian batsmen after Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar who has crossed 9,000 runs in test cricket.
18. After scoring 10,000 runs in ODI cricket, he became the sixth player in history and only the third Indian player after Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly.
19. He made his debut on ODI against Sri Lanka at The Padang, Singapore on April 3, 1996 replacing Vinod Kambli. His debut match was disappointed.
20. Subsequently he was dropped from the until he was picked again for the tour of England in the place of Sanjay Manjrekar because of his injury.
21. He made his debut on Test along with Sourav Ganguly in the second Test against England at Lord's on Jun 20-24, 1996. He scored 95 runs.
22. He held his position on Manjrekar's return for the Third Test, scoring 84.
23. He batted at No. 3 in the third Test in Johannesburg and claim his first man of the match after scoring his maiden century with 148 and 81.
24. He also finally made his first half-century against Pakistan in the Sahara Cup in 1996, scoring 90 in his 10th ODI.
25. He has highest number of double century among Indian players where twice he has scored hundred in each innings of one test match.
26. After scoring his second Test century against Zimbabwe in late 1998, 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.
27. He scored his first double century (200*) against Zimbabwe in Delhi.
28. Dravid made his debut in world cup in 1999.
29. He had very successful batsman scoring over 450 runs and he was the highest run getter in the VII world cup.
30. He was vice captain during world cup 2003 where India reached final round.
31. In world cup 2003, he had to play the role as a batsman and wicketkeeper to accommodate additional batsman.
32. In October 2005, he was appointed captain the one-day side, began with a thumping 6-1 hammering of Sri Lanka in a home series, and was soon given responsibility of the Test side as well, taking over from the controversy-shrouded Sourav Ganguly.
33. Dravid was captain during 2007 cricket world cup in West Indies.
34. He is the only batsman to have been involved in two ODI partnerships exceeding 300 runs.
35. He is also the first batsman who 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.
36. He also made a highest 331 run partnership in the history of ODI cricket along with Sachin Tendulkar against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999-2000.
37. He was the leading run scorer in the 1999 World Cup with 461 runs and it was the highest score by a wicketkeeper in a World Cup.
38. He is tied with Sachin Tendulkar in fourth place for having captained India in the most victorious matches. Has the highest ODI batting average as captain of 45.58 (as of 4/7/06), among all captains who have captained more than 10 ODIs.
39. He has the record of not being dismissed on duck for 120 consecutive ODI matches
40. He also hold the record of 3rd Highest number of fifties, after Sachin Tendulkar (84) and Inzamam Ul Haq (83)
41. Dravid has been involved most in the most century partnership in Test history. He made 65 times hundred runs partnership in Test cricket.
42. He is the 9th batsman to score twin hundreds in a Test twice, and only the 2nd Indian to do so, after Sunil Gavakar.
43. He made second highest run partnership in Test along with Virender Sehwag of 410 runs against Pakistan at Lahore in 2006. It is the highest run partnership between captain and vice-captain.
44. He is currently joint 4th along with Brian Lara among batsmen who have scored most away runs in Tests (5288 as of August 9th 2006). Only Sachin Tendulkar, Allan Border and Vivian Richards have scored more away Test runs.
45. He is the only players to score century against every Test playing nation away from home.
46. He is the fasted to reach 9000 runs in Test cricket. And he took only 176 innings to do it. West Indian batting great Brain Lara betting the previous record by 1 innings.
47. Dravid is one of the three batsmen to hit Test centuries in four consecutive innings. The other two are Jack Fingleton and Alan Melville.
48. He achieved this by hitting scores of 115, 148, 217 and 100*. Three centuries came against England and one against West Indies.
49. He became only the third captain from India to win a Test series in England after 21 years. Other two captains being Kapil Dev (1986) and Ajit Wadekar (1971).
50. During his captaincy the Indian team broke the 14 match West Indies record for most consecutive won matches in One-Day Internationals while chasing a total.

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