Rahul Dravid
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Rahul DravidIndia (Ind)

Batting style
Right hand bat
Bowling type
Right arm off break
Tests
ODIs
Matches
109
319
Runs scored
9366
10303
Batting average
57.46
40.08
100s/50s
24/47
12/79
Top score
270
153
Overs bowled
20
31
Wickets
1
4
Bowling average
39.00
42.50
5 wickets in innings
0
0
10 wickets in match
0
n/a
Best bowling
1/18
2/43
Catches/stumpings
149/0
185/14
As of May 21, 2007Source: Cricinfo.com
Rahul Sharad Dravid (Kannada:ರಾಹುಲ್‌ ಶರದ್‌ ದ್ರಾವಿಡ್‌) pronunciation (help·info) (born 11 January 1973 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh)[1] is an Indian cricketer, and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team. He grew up in Bangalore, Karnataka. [2] He started his international cricket career in 1996. He is, at present, ranked among the 10 best Test batsmen by the ICC in world cricket [3] and has the highest Test batting average of any Indian batsman in history.[4] Rahul is one of only 3 Indian batsmen to have scored 9,000 runs in test cricket (the other two being Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar). [5] On February 14, 2007, he became the 6th player in history and only the 3rd Indian after Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly to score 10,000 runs in ODI cricket.[6] As of now, he is the highest ranked Indian basman in the ICC Test rankings and the 2nd highest rated Indian batsman in the ICC ODI rankings.[7]
Contents[hide]
1 Personal life
2 Early years
3 International career
4 Dravid's style
5 Personal Records
5.1 Tests
5.2 One Dayers
6 Captaincy
6.1 Achievements
6.2 Criticism
7 Teams
7.1 International
7.2 Indian first-class
7.3 English county
8 Timeline
9 Career highlights
9.1 Tests
9.2 One-Day Internationals
10 Achievements
10.1 Awards
10.2 Test Cricket Awards
10.3 ODI Matches
11 Controversies
11.1 Ball-Tampering Incident
12 Business Interests
12.1 Endorsments
13 References
13.1 External links
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Personal life
Rahul Dravid is a Karnatakan of Maharashtrian brahmin origin. He has a brother. Dravid's father worked for Kissan, a company known for jams and preserves[8] and thus he earned the nickname Jammy from his teammates at St. Joseph's, Bangalore. Rahul Dravid has a degree in commerce from St Joseph's College of Commerce.
On May 4, 2003, Rahul married Vijeta Pendharkar, a surgeon from Nagpur[9] and on October 11, 2005, they have a son[10].

Early years
Having started to play cricket at the age of 12, Rahul played at the state level at the under-15, under-17 and under-19 level.[11] Rahul first came to prominence whilst attending a summer coaching camp at the Chinnaswamy Stadium where his talents were spotted by former cricketer Keki Tarapore who was coaching at the clinic[12]. He went on to score a century on debut for his school team[13] . Along with the batting, he was keeping wickets. However, he later stopped keeping wickets on advice from former Test players Gundappa Vishwanath, Roger Binny, Brijesh Patel and Tarapore.
He was selected to make his Ranji Trophy debut in February 1991 against Maharashtra in Pune (while still attending college at St. Joseph's College of Commerce in Bangalore), alongside future Indian teammates Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath, scoring 82 in a drawn match after batting in the No. 7 position[14]. His first full season was in 1991-92, when he scored two centuries to finish with 380 runs at an average of 63.3 [15], and was selected for South Zone in the Duleep Trophy [16], for whom he has been subsequently chosen annually.

International career
Dravid had a disappointing start to his career making his debut in one-dayers against Sri Lankan cricket team in the Singer Cup in Singapore immediately after World Cup in March 1996, replacing Vinod Kambli. Subsequently he was dropped from the team until he was picked again for the tour of England when Sanjay Manjrekar was injured.
With Manjrekar sidelined, he then made his debut in the Second Test against England along with Sourav Ganguly, scoring 95 [1]. He held his position on Manjrekar's return for the Third Test, scoring 84 [17]. After moderate home series against Australia and South Africa, Dravid broke through on the 1996-97 tour of South Africa. He batted at No. 3 in the third Test in Johannesburg, scoring his maiden century with 148 and 81, the top score in each innings to claim his first man of the match award [2]. He also finally made his first half-century against Pakistan in the Sahara Cup in 1996, scoring 90 in his 10th ODI [18].
In the 18 months ending in mid-1998, he played in an away series against the West Indies, home and away series against Sri Lanka and a home series against Australia, he scored consistently, with 964 runs at an average of 56.7. He scored eleven half-centuries but was unable to convert them to triple figures [3]. He scored his second century in late 1998 against Zimbabwe in a one-off Test match, top-scoring in both innings with 148 and 44, but was unable to prevent an Indian defeat [4]. He then 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 [5], batting for a total of 653 minutes [19]. He had a moderate subcontinental season in early 1999, scoring 269 runs at 38.42 with one century before scoring 239 at 39.8 including a century against New Zealand in late 1999[6]. This was followed by a poor away series against Australia and another poor home series against South Africa, accumulating just 187 runs at an average of 18.7. He then scored 200*, his first double century, against Zimbabwe in Delhi which along with 70* in the second innings helped India to victory. It was the first time he had passed 50 in 12 months and he followed this with a 162 in the following Test, giving him 432 runs in the two match series at an average of 432 [7].
Dravid and the Indian cricket team had a dismal 2007 Cricket World Cup Campaign. Dravid had scores of 14 (Bangladesh), 7* (Bermuda) and 60 (Sri Lanka).

Dravid's style
With a strong technique, he has been the backbone for the Indian cricket team. Beginning with the reputation of being a defensive batsman who should be confined to Test cricket, he was dropped from ODIs as he was slow in making runs. Of late, however, Rahul Dravid has defied early perceptions to become the mainstay of the Indian batting line-up in ODIs as well as in Tests. His nickname of 'The Wall' in Reebok advertisements has now become a tribute to his consistency. Dravid has scored 23 centuries in Test cricket at an average of 58.75, including 5 double centuries. In one-dayers though he has an average of 40.05, and a strike rate of 70.70. He is one of the few Indians who average more at away matches than at home, averaging over 10 more runs a match abroad than on Indian pitches. As of 9 August, 2006, Dravid's average in overseas Tests stood at 65.28 as against his overall Test average of 58.75, and his average for away ODI stands at 42.03 as against overall ODI average of 40.05. In matches that India has won, Dravid averages 78.72 in Tests and 53.40 in ODIs.
Dravid's sole Test wicket was that of Ridley Jacobs in the fourth Test against the West Indies during the 2001-2002 series. While he has no pretensions to being a bowler, Dravid often kept wicket for India in ODIs. He has since delegated the wicket-keeping gloves, first to Parthiv Patel and more recently to Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Dravid is now purely a batsman, one who has averaged 63.51 in matches played since 1 January, 2000.
Dravid was involved in two of the largest partnerships in ODIs: a 318-run partnership with Sourav Ganguly, the first pair to combine for a 300-run partnership, and then a 331-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar, which is the present world record. He also holds the record for the greatest number of innings since debut before being dismissed for a duck. His highest scores in ODIs and Tests are 153 and 270 respectively. Uniquely, each of his five double centuries in Tests was a higher score than his previous double century (200*, 217, 222, 233, 270).
Also, Dravid is the current world record holder for the highest percentage(%) contribution of runs scored in matches won under a single captain, where the captain has won more than 20 Tests. [20] In the 21 Test matches India won under Sourav Ganguly's leadership, Dravid played his part in every single one of those wins, scoring at a record average of 102.84 and piling up an astonishing 2571 runs, with nine hundreds - three of them double-centuries - and ten fifties in 32 innings. He contributed nearly 23% of the total runs scored by India those 21 matches, which is almost one run out of every four runs the team scored