THE WALL

The wall as we know him in the field of cricket. The wall called by all his fans, critics and above all by all his team mates and also senior cricketers. His name is Rahul Sharad Dravid. He was born in the state of Madhya Pradesh in the city of Indore in the year 1973 the 11^th January. Very few know that he is also called Jammy by his friends.

Popularly hailed as "The Wall", Dravid is known for his ability to bat for a long period of time.  He is the first and only batsman to score a century in all ten Test playing nations.

Dravid started playing cricket at the age of 12, and represented the state at the under-15, under-17 and under-19 level.Rahul's talents were first spotted by former cricketer Keki Tarapore who was coaching at a summer coaching camp at the Chinnaswamy stadium He went on to score a century on debut for his school team.Along with the batting, he was keeping wickets. However, he later stopped keeping wickets on advice from former Test players Gundappa Vishwanath, Roger Binny, Brijesh Patel and Tarapore. He was planning to get inducted in the Indian team as a wicket keeper.

Dravid had a disappointing start to his career making his debut in one dyaers against Srilankan cricket team in the Singer Cup in Singapore immediately after World Cup in March 1996, replacing Vinod Kambli. Subsequently, he was dropped from the team, until he was picked again for the tour of England.

Dravid was top scorer in the 7th World cup(1999), scoring 461 runs. He is the only Indian to score two back to back centuries at the World Cup. He scored 110 vs Kenya and followed it with a masterly 145 against Sri Lanka in Taunton, in a match where he kept wickets.

In 2003–2004 season, Dravid scored three double centuries, one each against New Zealand, Australia and Pakistan. Against Australia at Adelaide in second match of the four match series, the batting pair of Dravid and VVS Laxman proved to be Australia's nemesis again.  Laxman was dismissed for 148 while Dravid went on make 233. 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. 

In 2004, Dravid was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India. On 7 September 2004, he was awarded the inaugural player of the year award and the test player of the year by the ICC. Dravid's batting average of 95.46 in the past year has made him the only Indian to be in the test team of the year. On 18 March 2006, Dravid played his 100th Test against England in Mun

Again today he proved that he is the wall. And what Rahul Dravid is India's Man of the Series for 461 runs throughout the four matches…

I guess he should play for the another 2-3 yrs of test cricket and junior should learn from him his temperament...