Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid; born 11 January 1973) is a former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. Born in a Marathi family and brought up in Bangalore, he started playing cricket at the age of 12 and later represented Karnataka at the under-15, under-17 and under-19 levels. Hailed as The Wall, Dravid was named one of the best five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2000 and received...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth11 January 1973
CityIndore, India
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Sri Lanka was higher than us, so was South Africa and now Pakistan was number two. So we have played well against teams higher than us.
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Pakistan have got some good players all round. I think if we focus on just one or two players in the team, we will be making a mistake and I think if they focus on one or two players in our team, they will be making a mistake because we have shown over the last month that a lot of our guys are performing.
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Our batting in both innings, the top order especially, let us down.
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The boys responded well to challenges and the various roles they were asked to perform in the team. They also adjusted to the changes in the batting order.
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It will be a high scoring match and team batting first should post a total in excess of 250 runs.
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They fought really hard in the Test matches and used a lot of energy to draw the series. Bombay was critical for us psychologically and the way the boys bounced back was a credit to us.
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It's a great sign for him and for Indian cricket. Hopefully, he will go from strength to strength from here.
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They (Pakistan) have a very good batting line-up. But our bowlers bowled very well and we took some very good catches. It was a determined team effort that fetched us this victory.
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I thought it was a very professional performance from our boys. The key was the bowling. They bowled really well on a good batting track.
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Shuffling of batting order will depend on strategy and other conditions but the post-mortem of the Test series shows that we will have to play the key players in the positions suited to them.
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Our goal was to win the series 4-1. We were confident of chasing a target and we have been good at doing that in recent times.
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It was quite bizarre really the way we collapsed. After lunch there was a collective lapse of reason.
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I will have to see how the wicket looks tomorrow before deciding what to do (If I win the toss), but I don't think the toss would make much of a difference.
opened specialist
He is not an option. We have two specialist openers and I have also opened and done well.