Indian badminton player Prannoy Kumar, Para-swimmer Sharath Gayakwad and young Golfer S. In collaboration with GoSports Foundation he is mentoring India's future Olympians and Paralympians as part of the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme. In 2014, Rahul Dravid joined the GoSports Foundation, Bangalore as a member of their board of advisors. Dravid has also been honoured with the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan award, India's fourth and third highest civilian awards respectively. Rahul Dravid, along with Glenn McGrath were honoured during the seventh annual Bradman Awards function in Sydney on 1 November 2012. He appeared in the 2012 Indian Premier League as captain of the Rajasthan Royals.
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In August 2011, after receiving a surprise recall in the ODI series against England, Dravid declared his retirement from ODIs as well as Twenty20 International (T20I), and in March 2012, he announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket. Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar are currently the highest scoring partnership in Test cricket history having scored 6920 runs combined when batting together for India. He has also spent 44152 minutes at the crease, which is the highest time spent on crease by any player in test cricket. He has faced 31258 balls, which is the highest number of balls faced by any player in test cricket. Dravid holds a unique record of never getting out for a Golden duck in the 286 Test innings which he has played. As of October 2012, he holds the record for the most catches taken by a player (non-wicket-keeper) in Test cricket, with 210. In 2004, after completing his century against Bangladesh in Chittagong, he became the first player to score a century in all the ten Test-playing countries.
Īs of January 2022, Dravid is the fourth-highest run scorer in Test cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis. In December 2011, he became the first non-Australian cricketer to deliver the Bradman Oration in Canberra. Dravid was named one of the best five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2000 and received the Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year awards at the inaugural ICC awards ceremony in 2004. īorn in a Marathi family and raised in Bangalore, he started playing cricket at the age of 12 and later represented Karnataka at the under-15, under-17 and under-19 levels. Dependable and often referred to as The Wall. Known for his sound batting technique, Dravid scored 24,177 runs in international cricket and is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. Under his tutelage, the under-19 team finished runners up at the 2016 U-19 Cricket World Cup and won the 2018 U-19 Cricket World Cup. Prior to his appointment to the senior men's national team, Dravid was the Head of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy (NCA), and the head coach of the India Under-19 and India A teams. “I wanted to be nice and positive and play my way, and put it back on the South African bowlers because I know they’re a very good attack.Rahul Sharad Dravid ( / ˌ r ɑː h ʊ l d r ə v ɪ d/ ( listen) born 11 January 1973) is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national team, currently serving as its head coach. “One of things Warney’s taught me over the years is the better the bowling, the more positive you’ve got to be and that was certainly my intent from the first ball I faced yesterday,” Clarke told reporters. Much of the talk before the series had been about the South African pace attack of Dale Steyn, Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel and it was from an Australian bowling great of the past, Shane Warne, that Clarke drew his inspiration to neuter them. The 31-year-old carried his bat to the pavilion with 218 runs on the board having shared a record partnership of 259 with Ed Cowan, who scored his maiden test century in an innings of 136, and another stand of 188 with Mike Hussey (86 not out). REUTERS/Aman SharmaĬlarke came to the wicket with his side under the cosh at 40 for three in reply to South Africa’s 450 on Sunday afternoon and more than eight hours of batting later, was targeting what would be a stunning victory with his team on 487-4. Australia's Michael Clarke plays a shot against South Africa during the first test cricket match at the Gabba in Brisbane November 12, 2012.
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