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Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid

Net Worth

$23,748,734

Born in (City)

Indore, Madhya Pradesh

Born in (Country)

India

Date of Birth

11th December, 1973

Date of Death

-

Mother

Pushpa Dravid

Father

Sharad Dravid

Children

  • Samit Dravid , Anvay Dravid

About

Cricket is a game of gentlemen and the game has always provided people with some of the best gentlemen that the entire sports community has seen till date. And India being one of the most popular spot for cricket lovers, is no exception, the likes of Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar, have for years been the best gentlemen of the game. However, when it comes to the most gentle cricketer, the award would for sure go to the Wall of India, Rahul Dravid. Rahul Dravid was born on January 11, 1973. He is famous for being a cricket player. He currently resides in Indore, India. Former Indian captain who scored more than 13,000 Test runs and 10,000 ODI runs in his career. He was the first player to be named ICC Test Player of the Year and Player of the Year in 2004. Surely believed to be one of the best captains of all times, Rahul Dravid is among the elite set of batsman who has been able to cross the 10,000 runs barrier in the one day international. He has also captained the Indian national team for a few matches. He is said to be one of those players who can keep his calm at the most challenging moment. Rahul Dravid has over the years established himself as one of the most prolific cricketers of all times. He has been felicitated with quite a many awards and prestigious recognition all these helped the net worth of Rahul Dravid grow. Apart from cricket, Rahul Dravid has also been a prolific student of the nation. He is a qualified architecture University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore. While continuing with his studies, Dravid was selected for the national cricket team. Rahul Dravid’s brand endorsement portfolio consists of Reebok, Castrol, Max Life, and Gillette among others. Being off the ground for so long, he still can be seen endorsing a lot of products. The reason is his clean image and calm and composed nature.

Early Life

Rahul Dravid was born on January 11, 1973 to Maharashtrian parents Sharad Dravid and Pushpa Dravid in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. His father was an employee of Kissan and his mother Pushpa was employed as a professor of architecture at Bangalore University. He has a younger brother whose name is Vijay Dravid. During the early days of his student life, Rahul Dravid studied at St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School in Bangalore. He did his graduation in Commerce from St. Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore.

Road to Success

Rahul began playing cricket when he was just 12 years old. He played for the state of Karnataka at different levels such as under-15, under-17 and under-19 level. A former member of the Indian cricket team, Keki Tarapore identified his batting prowess when he was training budding cricketers at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. When Dravid first played for his school team, he made a hundred. Other than batting for his school team, he also did wicket keeping. Nonetheless, Dravid refrained from wicket keeping when he received tips from Roger Binny, Gundappa Vishwanath, Keki Tarapore, and Brijesh Patel who at different times represented the Indian cricket team. He first played in the Ranji Trophy against Maharashtra in Pune in February 1991. At that time he was still studying in St. Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore. He had the opportunity to play with Javagal Srinath and Anil Kumble who also represented the Indian national cricket team. He made 82 runs in a game which ended in a draw and he played in the number 7 position. Rahul Dravid is the first batsman to have scored centuries in all the test playing nations in the world. In the year of 2011, the legend decided to retire from the ODI and T20 matches, and in the year 2012,he retired from all the forms of international and first class cricket even when Rahul Dravid net worth was still mounting those days. He played his first complete season in 1991-1992. During this period, he made two hundreds and ended up scoring 380 runs with a commendable average of 63.3. As a result, he was chosen in the Duleep Trophy to play for South Zone. INTERNATIONAL CAREER PATH Dravid made his international debut against Sri Lanka in a one day series in Singapore in 1996. He made his test debut together with Sourav Ganguly versus England. He played prolifically and there was no looking back for this cricketer. He made his first test century against South Africa in the 1996-1997 tour. He scored his first half century in ODIs against Pakistan when he was playing for Sahara Cup. He is the third batsman of the Indian cricket team to make hundreds in both innings of a test match following Sunil Gavaskar and Vijay Hazare and he achieved the feat against New Zealand. In the 1999 ICC Cricket World Cup, he finished top scorer with 461 runs. He is the only Indian batsman to score two consecutive centuries in this tournament. The 180 runs he scored against Australia in the second test at the Eden Gardens in 2001 is regarded as one of the most memorable innings that he played for India. During 2003-2004, Dravid made three double centuries, against Australia, New Zealand, and Pakistan. He played his last one day international against England in September 2011 and played his last test match against Australia in the 2011-2012 season. However, he will continue to play for the IPL (Indian Premier League) and represent the Rajasthan Royals Team.

Challenges

1. When Rahul Dravid declared the innings with Sachin batting on 194: Unarguably, this is the biggest controversy in Rahul Dravid’s career. The Multan Test in 2004 is famous for Virender Sehwag’s 309. However, what followed after that knock in that test became a huge controversy. Post Sehwag’s heroics, Sachin Tendulkar got hold of the innings and smashed Pakistan to all parts, taking India past 600-run mark. Sachin Tendulkar was batting at 194 and Yuvraj Singh fell in the form of the fifth wicket. To everyone’s surprise, stand-in captain Rahul Dravid declared the innings, leading to a huge controversy. By his own admission, Rahul Dravid had been asked to reconsider his decision to declare for more than 1000 times in his career. 2. Ball-Tampering in 2004: Rahul Dravid was accused of ball-tampering during the Australia series in 2003. In the game against Zimbabwe, Rahul Dravid was caught on TV, rubbing a cough lozenge on the shiny side of the white ball. But with the evidence on camera going against, Lloyd decided to take action against Dravid under clause 2.10 of the ICC’s code of conduct. The coach John Wright, however, had backed him later stating that it was unintentional from Dravid. 3. Greg Chappel Controversy: Although Dravid hasn’t been someone who has been involved in many controversies during his career, it was one of those rare events when Greg Chappell was been slammed by Sachin Tendulkar for being a “Ring Master” in the team and Dravid maintained his silence over the whole issue.

Achievements

Dravid was awarded the prestigious Arjuna Award in 1999 for his precious contributions towards Indian cricket.|Dravid was honoured with the “Man of the Tournament award” in the 1999 World Cup.|He was also rewarded with the ICC Player of the year award in 2004 (also known as Sir Garfield’s sobers trophy)|Dravid received the Padma Shri Award in 2004|He had been named as the captain of the ICC test cricket team of the year.|Along with late Dev Anand, he was honoured with NDTV Indian of the year Lifetime achievement award in 2011

Quotes

  • I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying
  • You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride.
  • If you don't ask for the best, you don't get it.
  • No dream is ever chased alone.