Rahul Dravid!!
The perfect one down for India

Dravid bats at number three in the order, where a level head and sturdy technique is vitally important. However, considered unsuitable for the ODI’s, Dravid became an out east, needed only when his country played tests.

Dravid missed up to almost half of the ODI games his country played during 1998. “He slows down the run-rate, cannot be fitted in the XI and hence cannot be in the team,” was the official line. Dravid then, reassessed his game and worked on his game and worked on his flow – he used to look at the fielders when he should be concentrating on the gaps. He slowly gets to the nets and transformed himself and became a player more fluid with tempo of ODI cricket. His 190 and 103 in the second test against New Zealand signaled a new phase in Dravid‘s development.

In fact, this 26 year old scored the most runs in this world cup, 461 off 545 balls with a strike rate of 84.59. Dravid is thus known, as a well-balanced, modest individual, and his achievement in the recent World cup are a testament to his perseverance and dedication.

His performance in Australia was below par and off late he has not been making many runs. But he is too good a batsman to be in bad form for long and everyone hope he returns to his earlier form.