Full name Rahul Sharad Dravid
Born January 11, 1973, Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Current age 39 years 30 days
Major teams India, Scotland, Asia XI, ICC World XI, Karnataka, Kent, Marylebone Cricket Club, Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challengers Bangalore
Nickname The Wall
Playing role Top-order batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Fielding position Occasional wicketkeeper
Education St. Joseph's Boys' High School
Dravid holds an unnecessary world record of being bowled maximum number of times in Test cricket. He has been bowled 54 times in 284 innings in Test cricket so far.
Virender Sehwag’s Delhi-based coach AN Sharma feels Dravid’s slow reflexes as well as lapses in concentration have caused his downfall in recent times.
Sharma was quoted in India Today as saying,” He has always been someone with a pronounced initial movement, and though I have never been a big believer in that, it has served him well in the past. I don't think that has been causing the damage.
” If you see his last few innings, he gets bowled after having played himself in for a while, which indicates to me that he is suffering from lapses in concentration."
“It is almost as though he starts well, and then slowly his mind suffers a lapse which, allied to the Australian bowlers' discipline, the extra pace and late movement, lets the ball through. He is still technically sound, but on the faster wickets, his slower reflexes are not being able to cope up."
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