Rahul Dravid(DOB Jan 11,1973) has announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket on Friday March 9,2012 after 16 years.
Rahul Dravid India's best Test No. 3 and the second-highest run-scorer in Test cricket, informed the media of his decision during a press conference at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in his home city of Bangalore, with the BCCI president N Srinivasan and former India captain Anil Kumble at his side.
First Class Debut
Scored 82 for Karnataka against Maharashtra in February 1991.
Test debut: v England, Lord's, 1996 and scored 95 Runs batting at No 7(Saurav Ganguly who also made his debut scored 131 batting at No.3) and One-day debut: v Sri Lanka, Singapore and scored 3 Runs, 1996 and Twenty20 debut: v England, Manchester, 2011
Rahul Dravid, 39, made his Test debut against England at Lord's in June 1996 – five years after his first-class debut for Karnataka - scoring 95 in his first Test innings. His first century (148) came in his ninth Test, against South Africa in Johannesburg in January 1997.Scored his first ODI Century (107) against Pakistan at Chennai in May 1997.
Test Score
In 164 Tests Dravid scored 13,288 runs at an average of 52.31, with 36 centuries and 63 fifties and 270 as the highest score.7690 have come while playing outside India with a whopping average of 53and hitting 21 tons on foreign soils.
ODI Score
In 344 one-day internationals he amassed 10,889 runs – the seventh highest of all time - at 39.16, with 12 hundreds and 83 fifties with 153 as the highest score
T20 Score
1 Match - 31 against England at Manchester
County Cricket
Joined English County Side Kent in 2000 and topped the club’s averages with 1,039 runs at 49.47
Indian Team Captaincy
Dravid captained India ( Dec 2005 to Aug 2007) in 25 Tests, winning eight, losing six and drawing 11, following Sourav Ganguly's axing, was less successful, though he did lead the side to series victories in England and the West Indies for the first time in a generation.
India crashed out of the 2007 World Cup in the first round under his captaincy.
Led the team to a series win in England after 21 years
Rahul Dravid's Career Highlights in Test Cricket
1).Only Indian to score four Test centuries on the trot with innings of 115, 148, 217 and 100* against England (first three) and West Indies (last) respectively between August and October of 2002.Also he was the series in 2002 England Series for scoring 602 Runs in 4 Tests which include 2 Centuries at Trent Bridge and Headingly and a Double Century at the Oval
2) Down 0-1, India rode on Dravid's skills worth 233 and 72* to go past Australia at Adelaide in the tour of 2003-04 and give India their first Test victory in Australia in 23 years.
3) Two fifties (81 and 68) delivered India their second series victory in the West Indies in 2006, 25 years after Ajit Wadekar's team triumphed in 1971.
4) 200 Not Out against Zimbabwe in New Delhi on Nov 21,2000(RD's first Double Hundred)
5)His 180 in an epic partnership(386-run) with VVS Laxman in Kolkata in 2001against Australia, in which he joined Laxman with India 42 runs from an innings defeat and lifted them from ignominy to incredible triumph
6)His 270 Runs took India to a win against Pakistan at Rawalpindi in 2004 and first ever series win in Pakistan. It is also the longest ever innings played by an Indian in Test cricket.(12 hours)
7) nicknamed 'The Wall' for his dour defence, is the second highest run getter in Test history with 13,288 runs, behind only Sachin Tendulkar who has 15,470 runs. He has 36 Test centuries with a highest score of 270 and an average of 52.31.
8)Of the 36 tons Dravid has scored, India have not lost the match 32 times and of these, the team has gone on to win 15 matches
9)Played his last Test against Australia at Adelaide between January 24 and 28, 2012
Rahul Dravid's Career Highlights in ODI's
1)His 145 in a record stand of 318 in 45 overs with Sourav Ganguly at Taunton during the 1999 World Cup - in which he was the leading run-scorer.
2)At Adelaide in 2003, when India won a Test in Australia for the first time in a generation, he batted 835 minutes over two innings.
3)Topscored in 1999 Worldcup with 461 Runs
4)Rahul Dravid was involved in two of the largest partnerships in ODIs -
318-run second wicket partnership with Sourav Ganguly, the first pair to combine for a 300-run partnership for second wicket against Sri Lanka at Taunton in May 1999(Rahul Dravid scored 145 and Saurav Ganguly scored 183) and
331-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar for second wicket against New Zealand in November 1999, which is the present world record.(Rahul Dravid scored 153 and Sachin Tendulkar scored 186 Not Out)
Saurav - Dravid's 318 Runs Partnership
6)played his last ODI against England and scored 69 on September 16, 2011
Jonathan Trott congratulates Rahul Dravid on a fine ODI career
Rahul Dravid's Milestones
1)First and only batsman to score a century in all 10 Test-playing countries
2) First batsman to score 10,000 runs at No. 3
3) First batsman to face the most deliveries in Test cricket(31258)
4)the longest in ODI cricket to not score a duck (120 innings)between 1999 and 2004 – a record for any batsman in ODIs.
5)Batted for 173 consecutive innings in international cricket (Tests + ODIs) without a duck between 2000 and 2004 – the longest sequence for any batsman without duck.
6)with the most catches in Test cricket(210 in 164 Tests) and is the only player to have crossed the 200 mark.In April 2009 he took his 182nd catch dismissing New Zealand's Tim Mckintosh and overtakes the previous record held by Australia's Mark Waugh
7)Dravid reached the 10,000 run landmark in March 2008, a feat which has put him sixth in the list of batsmen in the history of Test cricket.
8) has been involved in more than 85 century partnerships with 20 different partners and has been involved in 20 century partnerships with Tendulkar - a world record.
9)Dravid contributed 128 runs in a record 410-run partnership for the first wicket in Lahore where Virender Sehwag scored 254
10)Became only the second batsman after Don Bradman to score double hundreds in three successive series by making 222 vs. New Zealand at Ahmedabad, 2003-04; 233 vs. Australia at Adelaide, 2003-04 and 270 vs. Pakistan at Rawalpindi, 2003-04.
11)Has twice scored hundreds in each innings of a Test – v New Zealand at Hamilton in 1998-99 and v Pakistan at Calcutta in 2004-05. He’s only the second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to have performed the feat of scoring twin-tons more than once
12)Became only the third Indian to carry his bat through an innings, scoring an unbeaten 146 out of 300 during The Oval Test of August 2011(after Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag)
Career Score Summary
Awards
One of Wisden's cricketers of the year in 2000.
awarded Padma Shri in 2004
awarded the ICC Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year at the inaugural awards ceremony held in 2004
Rahul Dravid to Captain Rajastan Royals in 2012 IPL to be played during April 4 -May 27,2012
Rahul Dravid India's best Test No. 3 and the second-highest run-scorer in Test cricket, informed the media of his decision during a press conference at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in his home city of Bangalore, with the BCCI president N Srinivasan and former India captain Anil Kumble at his side.
First Class Debut
Scored 82 for Karnataka against Maharashtra in February 1991.
Test debut: v England, Lord's, 1996 and scored 95 Runs batting at No 7(Saurav Ganguly who also made his debut scored 131 batting at No.3) and One-day debut: v Sri Lanka, Singapore and scored 3 Runs, 1996 and Twenty20 debut: v England, Manchester, 2011
Rahul Dravid, 39, made his Test debut against England at Lord's in June 1996 – five years after his first-class debut for Karnataka - scoring 95 in his first Test innings. His first century (148) came in his ninth Test, against South Africa in Johannesburg in January 1997.Scored his first ODI Century (107) against Pakistan at Chennai in May 1997.
Test Score
In 164 Tests Dravid scored 13,288 runs at an average of 52.31, with 36 centuries and 63 fifties and 270 as the highest score.7690 have come while playing outside India with a whopping average of 53and hitting 21 tons on foreign soils.
ODI Score
In 344 one-day internationals he amassed 10,889 runs – the seventh highest of all time - at 39.16, with 12 hundreds and 83 fifties with 153 as the highest score
T20 Score
1 Match - 31 against England at Manchester
County Cricket
Joined English County Side Kent in 2000 and topped the club’s averages with 1,039 runs at 49.47
Indian Team Captaincy
Dravid captained India ( Dec 2005 to Aug 2007) in 25 Tests, winning eight, losing six and drawing 11, following Sourav Ganguly's axing, was less successful, though he did lead the side to series victories in England and the West Indies for the first time in a generation.
India crashed out of the 2007 World Cup in the first round under his captaincy.
Led the team to a series win in England after 21 years
Rahul Dravid's Career Highlights in Test Cricket
1).Only Indian to score four Test centuries on the trot with innings of 115, 148, 217 and 100* against England (first three) and West Indies (last) respectively between August and October of 2002.Also he was the series in 2002 England Series for scoring 602 Runs in 4 Tests which include 2 Centuries at Trent Bridge and Headingly and a Double Century at the Oval
2) Down 0-1, India rode on Dravid's skills worth 233 and 72* to go past Australia at Adelaide in the tour of 2003-04 and give India their first Test victory in Australia in 23 years.
3) Two fifties (81 and 68) delivered India their second series victory in the West Indies in 2006, 25 years after Ajit Wadekar's team triumphed in 1971.
4) 200 Not Out against Zimbabwe in New Delhi on Nov 21,2000(RD's first Double Hundred)
5)His 180 in an epic partnership(386-run) with VVS Laxman in Kolkata in 2001against Australia, in which he joined Laxman with India 42 runs from an innings defeat and lifted them from ignominy to incredible triumph
7) nicknamed 'The Wall' for his dour defence, is the second highest run getter in Test history with 13,288 runs, behind only Sachin Tendulkar who has 15,470 runs. He has 36 Test centuries with a highest score of 270 and an average of 52.31.
8)Of the 36 tons Dravid has scored, India have not lost the match 32 times and of these, the team has gone on to win 15 matches
9)Played his last Test against Australia at Adelaide between January 24 and 28, 2012
Rahul Dravid's Career Highlights in ODI's
1)His 145 in a record stand of 318 in 45 overs with Sourav Ganguly at Taunton during the 1999 World Cup - in which he was the leading run-scorer.
2)At Adelaide in 2003, when India won a Test in Australia for the first time in a generation, he batted 835 minutes over two innings.
3)Topscored in 1999 Worldcup with 461 Runs
4)Rahul Dravid was involved in two of the largest partnerships in ODIs -
318-run second wicket partnership with Sourav Ganguly, the first pair to combine for a 300-run partnership for second wicket against Sri Lanka at Taunton in May 1999(Rahul Dravid scored 145 and Saurav Ganguly scored 183) and
331-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar for second wicket against New Zealand in November 1999, which is the present world record.(Rahul Dravid scored 153 and Sachin Tendulkar scored 186 Not Out)
Saurav - Dravid's 318 Runs Partnership
5)On 14 Feb 14,2007, he became the 6th player overall and the 3rdIndian (after Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly) to score 10,000 runs in ODI's
6)played his last ODI against England and scored 69 on September 16, 2011
Jonathan Trott congratulates Rahul Dravid on a fine ODI career
Rahul Dravid's Milestones
1)First and only batsman to score a century in all 10 Test-playing countries
2) First batsman to score 10,000 runs at No. 3
3) First batsman to face the most deliveries in Test cricket(31258)
4)the longest in ODI cricket to not score a duck (120 innings)between 1999 and 2004 – a record for any batsman in ODIs.
5)Batted for 173 consecutive innings in international cricket (Tests + ODIs) without a duck between 2000 and 2004 – the longest sequence for any batsman without duck.
6)with the most catches in Test cricket(210 in 164 Tests) and is the only player to have crossed the 200 mark.In April 2009 he took his 182nd catch dismissing New Zealand's Tim Mckintosh and overtakes the previous record held by Australia's Mark Waugh
7)Dravid reached the 10,000 run landmark in March 2008, a feat which has put him sixth in the list of batsmen in the history of Test cricket.
8) has been involved in more than 85 century partnerships with 20 different partners and has been involved in 20 century partnerships with Tendulkar - a world record.
9)Dravid contributed 128 runs in a record 410-run partnership for the first wicket in Lahore where Virender Sehwag scored 254
10)Became only the second batsman after Don Bradman to score double hundreds in three successive series by making 222 vs. New Zealand at Ahmedabad, 2003-04; 233 vs. Australia at Adelaide, 2003-04 and 270 vs. Pakistan at Rawalpindi, 2003-04.
11)Has twice scored hundreds in each innings of a Test – v New Zealand at Hamilton in 1998-99 and v Pakistan at Calcutta in 2004-05. He’s only the second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to have performed the feat of scoring twin-tons more than once
12)Became only the third Indian to carry his bat through an innings, scoring an unbeaten 146 out of 300 during The Oval Test of August 2011(after Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag)
Career Score Summary
Awards
One of Wisden's cricketers of the year in 2000.
awarded Padma Shri in 2004
awarded the ICC Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year at the inaugural awards ceremony held in 2004
Rahul Dravid to Captain Rajastan Royals in 2012 IPL to be played during April 4 -May 27,2012
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