Rahul Sharad Dravid

Rahul Sharad Dravid (born 11 January 1973) is one of the best accomplished cricketers in the Indian civic team, of which he has been a approved affiliate back 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian candid aggregation in October 2005 and accommodated from the column in September 2007. Dravid was accustomed as one of the bristles Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2000. Dravid was additionally awarded the ICC Amateur of the Year and the Test Amateur of the Year at the countdown awards commemoration captivated in 2004.
Known as the Wall due to his adeptness to bat for continued durations, and Jammy due to his endorsement for Kissan and additionally because his ancestor formed in Kissan, a jam company, Dravid holds assorted apple cricketing records. He is the additional Indian batsman, afterwards Sachin Tendulkar, and the fifth all-embracing amateur to accept denticulate added than 11,000 runs in Test cricket. On 14 February 2007, he became the sixth amateur in the history of apple candid and the third Indian, afterwards Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, to account 10,000 runs in ODI cricket. He is the aboriginal and the alone batsman to account a aeon in all ten Test arena nations. With added than 185 catches, Dravid currently holds the apple almanac for the accomplished cardinal of catches in Test cricket. Dravid has additionally been complex in added than 80 aeon partnerships with 18 altered ally — a apple record.