Saturday, January 14, 2012

Rahul Dravid

Early Life 

Rahul Dravid was born on the 11th of January 1973 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh and was brought up in Bangalore, Karnataka. He studied at St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Bangalore and St. Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore. Dravid had begun playing Cricket at quite an early age, and made a place for himself in the State Cricket team at Under-15, Under-17 and Under-19 levels. In the year 1991 he made his debut in Ranji Trophy while playing against Maharashtra. He scored 82 runs in the match, which was eventually resulted in a draw. In the year 1991-12 he also represented South Zone in the Duleep Trophy. 





Test and ODI Debut 

Rahul made his debut in One Day International (ODI) Cricket with an ODI match between India and Sri Lanka, played at Singapore on 3rd of April, 1996. He scored just 3 runs in the match. His debut in the Test Cricket was made on the June 20th, 1996 with a Test match against England, and he scored 95 runs in the match. 



Overall Performance 

In his overall Test Cricket career, Rahul Dravid has played 162 Test matches till date. In these matches, he has scored 13206 runs with an average of 52.82 runs and the highest score of 270 runs. While in ODI Cricket, he has played 344 ODI matches till date and has scored 10889 runs with an average of 39.16 runs. His highest ODI score is 153 runs.

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