Rahul Dravid 11 January

Rahul Dravid is one of the most experienced top order batsmen of Team India. He bats right handed and has played the role of wicketkeeper as well. He is nicknamed Jammy and is known as The Wall in cricket. He also bowls right arm off spin but has emerged most dependable batsman in world cricket.

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Early Life
Rahul Sharad Dravid was born on 11th January 1973, in the Indore city of Madhya Pradesh to a Maharashtra family. He has a younger brother Vijay Dravid. His father name is Sharad Dravid and worked as Kissan a well known Jam making company. His mother name is Pushpa Dravid and she was a Professor of Architecture at Bangalore University. He did his schooling form St Joseph Boy’s High School and is a graduate in commerce from St Joseph College of Commerce.
He is married to Vijeta Pendharkar who is a surgeon from Nagpur. He has two son’s Samit and Anvay.

Cricket Career

He started his cricket career with Ranji Trophy in which he played for Karnataka against Maharashtra in Pune. He had a good outing in the tournament as was called by South Zone in Duleep Trophy.

He made his International debut in 1996 when he played his first One Day International against Srilanka on April 3, 1996 in Singapore. He made his Test debut against England on June 20, 1996 along with Saurav Ganguly and scored 95 in his first test innings. Though he fell short by 5 runs but he sealed his place in the test squad for the future to come.

He made his maiden test century against South Africa when India toured them in 1996/97. He made his first ODI half century against Pakistan in his 10th match. He also became only the third Indian batsman to score centuries in both innings of a test match.

He was adjudged the Man of the Tournament for the 1999 Cricket World Cup accumulating 461 runs. He was awarded the captaincy of Team India for the 2007 cricket world cup where the team failed to perform. He stepped down from captaincy after that as Mahendra Singh Dhoni succeeded him in ODI and Anil Kumble in tests.

He has not played an ODI since September 2009 but is a regular in Test Cricket.

Awards And Achievements:

Arjuna award : 1998 Wisden Cricketer of the Year : 2000 Padma Shri: 2004 ICC Test Player of The Year : 2004 MTV Youth Icon of the Year: 2004 Captain of the ICC's Test Team : 2006