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
bit cards good honest initially lay looks might table
I wouldn't lay out my cards on the table now, to be honest it looks a very good wicket that might do a little bit initially for the bowlers.
cricket good
If we play good cricket, we should win,
ashes cricket ensures future plan sure
I am sure in future they will come up with a plan like the Ashes which ensures that there is not too much and not too little cricket played. I think you got to get the right balance.
hopefully remaining series
But this is a seven-match series and hopefully they would do so in the remaining games.
batting conditions depend key order players positions series shows strategy suited test
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.
bit needed stage
We needed another wicket at that stage (95-6), but could not get it. We could have probably bowled a bit better in that game.
batting chasing clicking confidence confident constantly goal learning series targets win
We were confident that our batting was clicking and we could chase. The goal was to win the series 4-1 and we are learning constantly about the way we are chasing targets and I think the confidence was the key.
bowling ideas
We have a young and inexperienced bowling attack. So we have to come up with new ideas. We have to be a little better that what we have done so far.
fit rested
We have rested him as a precaution. Hopefully, he would be fit to play.
chance game opportunity
We also see tomorrow's game as an opportunity to give a chance to some of our batsmen and bowlers.
captain great greatest job series shown truly
I think he did a great job as a captain in his first series and he's truly shown why is the greatest all-rounder in the world at the moment.
batting boys good key performance
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.
africa against higher number pakistan played south teams
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.
boys good
It has been a good two weeks. The boys responded very well.