Rahul Dravid has won India many matches for India both as a captain and batsmen. But still do you think he sometimes struggle by wasting too many balls.
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yeah he is one of the greatest ever to play
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do experiments in a limit like place dhoni at no4 place\nbut not cross the limit like send pathan at 3 place\n\ndravid is anice guys to perform by bat & captancy\nbut greg ih the real challange which affects the team performance.
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Dravid's style\nBeginning with the reputation of being a defensive batsman who should be confined to Test cricket, Rahul Dravid has defied early perceptions to become the mainstay of the Indian batting line-up in ODIs as well as in Tests. His nickname of 'The Wall' in Reebok advertisements was treated by ODI fans as a derisory comment about his inability to rotate strike as he tended to hold up one end playing his front foot defence, neither scoring runs nor getting out. The nickname has now become a tribute to his consistency. Dravid has scored 22 centuries in Test cricket at an average of 57.65, including 5 double centuries, whilst in one-dayers he has an average of 40.16 at a strike rate of 70. He is one of the few Indians who average more at away matches than at home, averaging about 10 more runs a match abroad than on Indian pitches. As of 28 October, 2005, Dravid's average in overseas Tests stood at 63.20 as against his overall Test average of 57.59, and his average for away ODI stands at 42.95 as against overall ODI average of 40.42. In matches India has won, Rahul Dravid averages 79.51 and 51.54 in Tests and ODI respectively.\n\nDravid's sole Test wicket was that of Ridley Jacobs in the fourth Test against the West Indies during the 2001-2002 series. While he has no pretensions to being a bowler, Dravid often kept wickets for India in ODIs, an 'experiment' that continued for several seasons. He has since delegated the wicket-keeping gloves, first to Parthiv Patel and more recently to Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Dravid is now purely a batsman, one whose Test average has soared to 67.56 in matches played since 1 January, 2000.\n\nDravid was involved in two of the largest parnerships in ODIs: a 318-run partnership with Sourav Ganguly, the first pair to combine for a 300-run partnership, and then a 331-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar, which is the present world record. He also holds the record for the greatest number of innings since debut before being dismissed for a duck. His highest scores in ODI's and Tests are 153 and 270 respectively. Uniquely, each of his five double centuries in Tests was a higher score than his previous double century (200, 217, 222, 233, 270).\n\n \nRahul Dravid's career performance graph.Schooled at St. Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore, and college in St. Joseph's College Of Commerce. He was coached by Keki Tarapore, Dravid has played county cricket for Kent and Scotland. He also led Karnataka to the Ranji Trophy, scoring a double century in the process in the final. He made his Test debut against England at Lords in the 2nd Test match of India's Test tour of England in 1996, and his ODI debut against Sri Lanka at Singapore in the Singer Cup tournament in the same year. He was named one of the Wisden cricketers of the year 2000.\n\nIn 2004, Dravid was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. On 7 September, 2004, he was awarded the inaugural Player of the year award and the Test player of the year by the International Cricket Council, ICC (associated image below). Dravid's batting average of 95.46 in the past year has made him the only Indian to be in the Test team of the year. On 18th March, 2006, Dravid played his 100th Test against England in Mumbai.\n\nIn 2005, a biography of Rahul Dravid written by Devendra Prabhudesai was published, 'The Nice Guy Who Finished First'.\n\nIn the 2005 ICC Awards he was the only Indian to be named to the World one-day XI.\n\nDravid was nicknamed 'Jammy' by schoolmates because his father worked for Kissan, famous for its jams and preserves.\n\nIn 2006, it was announced that he would remain captain of the Indian team up to the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies.\n\n\nPersonal Records\n\nTests\nDravid has the 2nd highest Test batting average among those who have scored over 8,000 Test runs. (30 March 2006) \nLongest streak of consecutive Tests since debut (94) \nGreatest number of in
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India had consecutively win 17 matches while chasing the score. It was not a tough target to chase. So, in a such situation India was mentally above the West Indians, but I think it has created some over confidence to India. \n\nWhether overconfidence or not, I think some of the Indian players had played some loose shots, which was unnecessary as the ball was not coming to the bat. While chasing low scores most of the biggest team had collapsed incredibly. That is Cricket! \n\nAnyhow I hope India will come back in the next match to get lead in the series.
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its really foolish to say like that ,when sachin tendulkar was at his performance best ,everybody praised him ,he was called master blaster!!!,was compared with bradmen.\nrecently in few matches his performance is shadoweded by other young upcoming stars,but his presence in the team is a great moral booster.its just that he not at his level best now & that is a matter of concern for everyone.
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see no doubt he is a good player\nbut he got many oppertunity to prove himself\nbut he remain failed\n\nand now in present indian team there is no space for him
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From a delivery straight from the bowler you can hit as many times as you can trying to keep the ball away from the wickets or drive it towards the boundaries.But if you hit the ball and it is touched by a fielder you cannot hit it again as he throws it back at the wickets.
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IF SOMEONE BELIEVE "GANGULY" ONLY THE SO CALLED\n"EXPERIENCE".....THAT'S TOTALLY WRONG.\n\nYOU CANT BLAME A CAPTAIN OR COACH FOR INDIA'S OVERSEAS DEFEAT.\nITS HAPPENING FOR QUITE A LONG TIME..ALMOST THE BEGINNING.\n\nEVERYONE KNOWS THE UNIVERSAL TRUTH...INDIA CANT WIN IN ABROAD.
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Marathon innings: Lara. \n\nTell me one marathon innings others in your list have played.\n\nTendulkar played one against Bangladesh. (248)\nHe scored 241 against Australia - his worst ever double century on a flat pitch where he refused to cover-drive. \n\nPonting: I haven't seen one longish innings yet.\n\nKallis who?\n\nPS: Rahul Dravid is one name missing from the list. He is one in recent times who has batted over 2 days a few times.
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well its a very tough task to choose who is the best middle order batsman among those three names. well i guess it will be dravid purely because he has bailed out his team from danger in both oneday and testmatches in comparision to the other two, playing in the middle order.
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the match seems to be draw if the Indian did not play bad.
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yes it's totally unfair.when you took his strength\nby dropping him out of one days and also expect him to play under so heavy pressure of purforming well\nit's not fair at all.how can you drop him if you have give him place as a bowler and doesn't give him a single over when you know he was very good in his last matches out of international cricket?no one can perform in such conditions.he was one of the best three and captain of india,also a great six hitter and not to forget the most successful indian captain.how can they drop him?how????
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lets face reality!!!  With the present condition of the team we should not fool ourselves.  There is only a couple of consistent players on the team and too much pressure is put on Lara, as captain and as a batsman.  We can't depend on his talent alone although he is probably the greatest batsman ever.  Best of luck to them though and they will always have my support come what may.
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sourav aint carryin' a gud attitude..agreed! but i really dun think d cricket board shud treat him d way they hv in d recent past..puttin him in and out so frequently knowingly dat he's d most successful captain India has ever produced..includin' him in tests and not in ODI's when dey know he's made 10,000+ runs in d latter form of d game... how can u expect him to perform at his best today whn he's again knocked of d one-day squad yes'day???
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Over the last 15 years, every test match India has won has been thanks to Kumble.\n\nAs Kumble's bowling is blunted on foreign pitches, we never win abroad.\n\nWho says India is a one-man team revolving around Ghachin?
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I think dhoni must open the innings with his swash buckling shots.As at present in our team we dont have a good opening start and thatz the reason y we had failed in the recent odi series with west indies.If sent opens the innings along with Sehwag then noone can stop India from making huge scores.I think the Indian team is not utilizing his talent properly.
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I find following batsmen who have a tremendous record:\nBesides Tendulkar:\n\n1. Sunil Gavaskar\n2. VVS Laxman\n3. GR Vishvanath\n4. Rahul Dravid\n5. Yuvraj Singh\n\nthese players are very good players of fast bowling. Having good/solid/sound technique. I have a word of praise for Laxman and Yuvraj. But I find them not so good against spin. Against spin and fast bowling, the other players are very good.\n\nThe order of writing does not mean that that is in descending order. They are equally sound good players.