Rahul Dravid - The Last Classical Batsman

Whenever we talk about classical batsman in cricket world, some top most classical batsman in cricket like Don Bradman, Brian Lara, Steve Waugh, Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid. Today Rahul Dravid will play last  ODI match against England of his career. It is 344th  match of his 15 years career. He is the classical batsman of modern cricket. He started test career from Lord test before 15 yrs against England. He scored more than 90s runs in first test while Saurav Ganguly scored hundred in his first test.

‘The Wall of Team India’, Rahul Dravid’s scintillating ODI career is set to end here at Cardiff when India will play fifth and final ODI against England on Friday. “

In the 15-year-old ODI career, Rahul Dravid has played 343 international games and scored 10, 820 runs with an impressive average of 39.06. He has 12 ODI hundreds while 82 fifties in his kitty.

Popularly known as Mr. Perfect, Dravid has every shot in his book Making ODI debut against Sri Lanka in the year 1996, initially Dravid was not considered as an ODI cricketer but his determination and dedication towards the game cemented his position as No.3 batsmen.  He did biggest partnership with Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly in ODI with more than 300 runs. Dravid’s orthodox technique makes him last classical batsman of this era.

When Ganguly was sacked as the captain during the coach Greg Chappel’s regime, Dravid was made skipper of Team India. However, a two-year stint as captain was less successful. But as a captain, he led the side to series victories in England and the West Indies for the first time in a generation. But Dravid witnessed worse downfall of his career when the Team India crushed out of 2007 World Cup in West Indies. Under the captaincy of Dravid, India lost the game against minnows Bangladesh and ousted from the World Championship in the early stage. India’s defeat in the 2007 WC cost Dravid captaincy and his ouster from the ODI team as well.

He is the first test cricket who made century against all test nation in that Land. It shows he was brilliant player and technical sound in cricket. 2011 England shows he was the single player who played very well against English bowler. 3 century against England in 2011 tour of India . Now Dravid will play only test cricket. He is the single player who played only one T-20 match of his career.

All wishes with Mr. Wall for his test match