What are the unknown facts about Rahul Dravid?

 1. Rahul Dravid’s full name is Rahul Sharad Dravid and his mother tongue is Marathi.

2. Rahul Dravid earned his nickname Jammy because his father used to work in ‘Kissan’ factory. Later Rahul also did an advertisement for ‘Kissan Jam’.

3. Rahul Dravid was proposed on MTV’s popular show – ‘Bakra’, as the part of the prank Of course. But he advised that women to continue her education and devote her time to other important things in life.

4. There is also a local Cricket tournament at the school level named after the veteran batsman Rahul Dravid. The ‘Jammy Cup’ is held in Bangalore and the man-of-the-match gets the title of ‘Jammy of the Day.’

5. Rahul Dravid has won 11 Man of the Match Awards in Tests, 8 of them in overseas Tests.

6. Rahul Dravid is the only Indian who holds the record for scoring Centuries in 4 consecutive innings in Test Cricket.

7. Rahul Dravid was voted as the “Sexiest Sports Personality in India” in an online survey (2004-05), beating the likes of Yuvraj Singh, Sania Mirza and others sports personalities.

8. Rahul Dravid has faced 31,258 deliveries (5209 overs) in Test Cricket in 164 matches. No other batsman has faced 30,000 deliveries.

9. Rahul Dravid is the only cricketer who debuted in T20 Internationals and took retirement in the same match.

10. Rahul Dravid’s Jersey number is 19 when asked about the reason, he said, “it’s the best way to remember my wife’s birthday.”

11. Rahul Dravid was honoured with “Padma Shri” and “Padma Bhushan” from the Government of India for his services to Cricket.

What are some mind-blowing facts about Rahul Dravid?

 

What are some mind-blowing facts about Rahul Dravid?

• Of the 210 catches Dravid took in Test matches, more than half were off the bowling of Anil Kumble (55) and Harbhajan Singh (51).
• Dravid scored more Test runs and centuries at Eden Gardens than at any other ground. In nine Tests there he made 962 runs at an average of 68.71, with four hundreds.
• Dravid scored six Test hundreds in England. Only one Indian has scored more Test centuries in an overseas country Sunil Gavaskar, who has seven in the West Indies.

• Dravid bowled 20 overs in his Test career, and took one wicket for 39 runs: that of West Indies wicketkeeper Ridley Jacobs, in the Antigua Test in 2002.
• Dravid scored 860 runs in World Cups at an average of 61.42. Among batsmen who scored at least 750 World Cup runs only Viv Richards has a better average (1013 runs at 63.31).
• Dravid became the second-oldest batsman to score over 1000 Test runs in a calendar year when he made 1145 runs in 2011, when almost 39. Don Bradman had scored 1025 runs in 1948 when he was nearly 40.

• In an ODI against South Africa in Kochi in 2000, Dravid outbowled Anil Kumble, taking 2 for 43 against Kumble’s 0 for 48
• Shane Warne dismissed Dravid more often than any bowler in Tests eight times in 13 Tests. In all international cricket, Brett Lee leads the way, with 12 dismissals in 38 matches.
• The bowlers who got Dravid out most often in ODIs were both fairly unlikely names: Sanath Jayasuriya and Abdul Razzaq, who dismissed him six times each.

• Three of the four wickets Dravid took bowling in ODIs were of South Africans Shaun Pollock, Gary Kirsten and Lance Klusener. The only other batsman he dismissed in ODIs was Saeed Anwar.
• Dravid was never dismissed for a first-ball duck in Tests. He was, though, run out for 0 without facing a ball once: in the Lahore Test of 2004.
• When Dravid was at the crease, the team scored 32,039 runs, which amounted to 35.6% of the total runs that India made in the Tests in which Dravid played. Dravid is also the only batsman to be involved in more than 700 partnerships; in fact, no other batsman has touched 650 so far.

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What is the finest performance by Rahul Dravid in international cricket?

 When ‘The Wall’ withstood all English troubles-

It was the 4th test of the England tour of India,2011.

England,batting first had piled a 1st innings score of 591 for 6, and had declared after Ian Bell scored a brilliant double ton.

India, in their 2nd innings,lost stalwarts Virender Sehwag and VVS Laxman early.

Sachin Tendulkar did show some resilience with 23 from 34 balls.

But he too departed without much work.

But this man, Rahul Sharad Dravid was still holding forte.

Big names like Suresh Raina and MSD departed without making much harm to the English bowling line-up.

But with Amit Mishra and RP Singh by his side, Rahul Dravid scored one of the most memorabpe innings of his life.

A masterclass knock of 146 runs, facing a vigil of 266 balls. When no batsman scored a 50, he made a brilliant hundred.

Take a bow, Rahul Dravid.

This by far remains the best innings played by him, atleast according to me.

Thanks for the A2A,though, Shraddha Pandey, and please do accept my friend request on Facebook. 😊

Edit 1- User-11900569173965993752 mentions that he opened the innings and carried his bat throughout the innings,becoming the 3rd Indian opener after Viru and Gavaskar to do so.