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Dravid was selected to make his Ranji Trophy debut in February 1991 against Maharashtra in Pune ( while still attending college ), alongside future Indian teammates Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath, scoring 82 in a match that was drawn.
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He was also an excellent first slip – his 157 catches, at the time, a Test record ( now held by Rahul Dravid ).
Dravid was born in a Maharashtrian Brahmin family in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
After a moderate performance in the home series against Australia and South Africa, Dravid was picked for the 1996 – 97 tour of South Africa.
Dravid continued to bat at No. 3 in ODIs and was subsequently selected in the Indian team for the 7th World Cup ( 1999 ).
Dravid was the captain during the 2007 cricket world cup in West Indies, where Indian cricket team had a dismal campaign.
2002 was the year, when Dravid started to emerge out of Tendulkar's shadow and established himself as India's premier Test batsman.
Laxman was dismissed for 148 while Dravid went on make 233.
By the time Dravid was done, India was only 33 short of Australia's first innings score.
Dravid was the India's lifesaver in the disastrous tour of England in 2011, which costed India the top rankings in test cricket which they lost 4-0.
Rahul Dravid had been dropped from the ODI team in 2009 until he was included in the team in 2011 for a ODI series in England.
After winning the Test series against England in August 2007, Rahul Dravid stepped down as the captain of the team following which Mahendra Singh Dhoni was made the captain of the Twenty20 and ODI team.
In the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he was involved in a partnership of 318 runs with Rahul Dravid, which remains the highest overall partnership score in the World Cup tournament history.
When Australia's stand-in-captain, Adam Gilchrist, went to the toss, he noticed Rahul Dravid was waiting instead of Ganguly, leaving him to ask Dravid where Ganguly was.
Having been nominated and rejected in 2000, when the game suffered a tarnished reputation due to match fixing scadals, the captaincy was passed to Dravid, his former deputy.
Consequently, due to his poor form and differences with the coach, Ganguly was dropped as the captain of the team, with Dravid taking his place.
According to Dubey, Ganguly and Wright, along with other members of the team like Tendulkar and Dravid, were the first to understand the importance of a foreign coach for the Indian cricket team and was convinced that the domestic coach has outlived its utility.
His most significant performance was in India in 1999 when he captured eight wickets in the Asian Test championship match at Calcutta – including the wickets of Indian batsmen Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar when he bowled, both batmsen off successive deliveries.
In 1997 he came under intense scrutiny from the international cricket media after he was alleged to have used racially abusive language against India's Rahul Dravid in the finals of a one-day series.
" I was really pumped by the time Tendulkar and Dravid came together, but they soon got after me.
Dravid and selected
After being selected, Dravid announced that the series would be his last ODI appearance.
Recently, it has a very strong batting line-up with Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag all being selected to play for the ICC World XI in the 2005 " SuperTest " against Australia.
Dravid and Trophy
In the semi-final of the Duleep Trophy of 1995 / 96 season against West Zone, Laxman scored 47 in the first innings and a spectacular 121 in the second innings, sharing a 199-run partnership with skipper Rahul Dravid.
He also captained the national ODI team in the 2005 – 06 Challenger Trophy in the absence of regular captain Rahul Dravid.
Dravid and debut
Dravid had a disappointing start to his career making his debut in one-dayers against Sri Lankan cricket team in the Singer Cup in Singapore immediately after World Cup in March 1996, replacing Vinod Kambli.
Dravid made his debut in the second Test against England along with Sourav Ganguly, when Sanjay Manjrekar got injured after the first Test match on that tour.
After being eliminated by neighbours Sri Lanka on home soil at the 1996 Cricket World Cup, the team underwent a year of change as Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, later to become captains of the team, made their debut in the same Test at Lord's.
However, after teammate Navjot Singh Sidhu left the touring, citing ill-treatment by then captain Mohammad Azharuddin, Ganguly made his Test debut against England in the Second Test of a three-match series at Lord's Cricket Ground alongside Rahul Dravid.
Dravid and against
In August 2011 after getting a surprise call to play in the ODI series against England Dravid declared his retirement from ODIs and T20I.
During the 18 months starting from 1996 till mid-1998, Dravid played in an away series against the West Indies, home and away series against Sri Lanka and a home series against Australia, where he scored consistently, with 964 runs at an average of 56. 7.
Dravid had a moderate season in the subcontinent in early 1999, scoring 269 runs at an average of 38. 42 with one century before scoring 239 at an average of 39. 8 including a century against New Zealand in late 1999.
Dravid gestures while fielding during a Test match against Sri Lanka in Galle in 2008.
In the second test of a three match test series against Australia at Kolkata in 2001, Dravid joined hands with VVS Laxman to produce one of the greatest comeback victories in the history of the game.
In 2003 – 2004 season, Dravid scored three double centuries, one each against New Zealand, Australia and Pakistan.
Dravid scored 619 runs in that four-match series against Australia at an average of 103. 16 and won the man of the series award.
Rahul Dravid played his last ODI innings against England at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff on Friday, 16 September 2011.
He broke the previous record set by Rahul Dravid ( 176 innings ) during the second Test against Pakistan on 3 November 2011.
During a Test match against India in Mumbai, Slater claimed to have taken a diving catch off a mistimed pull-shot by Indian batsman Rahul Dravid.
In the final against India, he picked up one wicket bowling Rahul Dravid as Australia won, completing an undefeated campaign.
Dravid and while
Dravid scored 180 while Laxman made 281.
Gayle was given the job of bowling the 40th over, which featured a moment of indecision by Rahul Dravid as Vettori swooped on the ball, while Dravid was able to avoid being run out, his batting partner Muralitharan – running to the danger end – was not so lucky and fell for a duck, completing the Asian XI's innings of 232.
Dravid and still
Yuvraj and Dravid played cautiously, yet Yuvraj still managed to give away his wicket, pulling to substitute fielder Upul Tharanga at mid-on.
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