Call back Rahul Dravid for ODIs: Akram

var facebookktitle='Call back Rahul Dravid for ODIs: Akram';var facebooksyn='Rahul Dravid should be called back to India\'s ODI team as he still has lot to offer to the country in ODIs, feels former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram.'; NEW DELHI: Senior batsman Rahul Dravid should be called back to India's ODI team as he still has lot to offer to the country in the 50-over format, feels former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram."Dravid still has a lot...

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Opinion: Send SOS to Dravid

With India's batting looking fragile and the bowling somewhat inept, the selectors need to think on their feet.By Sruresh Menon As I sit down to write this, there are 180 days, four hours, one minute and six seconds to go before the 50-over World Cup. The Indian team playing in the Tri-Series in Sri Lanka is neither as good as their No.2 world ranking suggests nor as bad as their batting collapses against New Zealand and Sri Lanka indicate.The series started with a question mark over the bowling attack, but it is the batting that is causing nightmares now – not to the opposition but to the supporters of the team. The only consistent area...

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Top 5 Performances of Rahul Dravid

1)270 vs Pakistan, Rawalpindi 2004. Series locked at 1-1 and the decider expected to be a tense, close fight. Pakistan dismissed for 224, but Sehwag dismissed first ball. Dravid joins makeshift opener Parthiv Patel the wicket-keeper. They survive a few anxious moments (Shoaib Akhtar with his tail up after all), and the first day ends with India 23-1. Next morning,Dravid's solidity calms things down and Patel begins to open up. Then, Patel is caught behind at 129 and Tendulkar too 1 run later. 130-3, match in the balance again. Laxman and Ganguly however get classy seventies, and Yuvraj an uncharacteristically slow forty, but it is Dravid who...

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my childhood and rahul dravid

well people know me as a big 3 fan here , sachin ,dada , dravid , but DRAVID has had a esp place in my heart , as there have been quite a few episodes in my life , which makes me emotinol when it cums to JAMMY , i was in class 4th at st peter,s college agra , it was 98 , our school had a function where rahul roy was invited a guest just to meet the children , i was doing my work in the class , i was called by my teacher to cum and join the boys , and leave the class but i dident wanted to attend the function , bcoz i had kind of fever , but i came school bcoz i had some work , my teacher called me again but i denied , one of my friend...

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Astrologer: best years of DRAVID are behind him

Rahul Dravid is a Sagittarius-Pisces combo. The Sun, which rules the soul, and Mercury, which rules the thought processes, are both in Sagittarius. His Moon, the planet that rules emotions, is in Pisces. Sagittarius is the most athletic amongst all signs and Pisces is the most adaptable.It’s little wonder that at 37, he is fit as a fiddle.But his zodiac signs are not known for their leadership skills and hence his discomfort in being the leader of the team. This is a very curious combination. While Sagittarius is one of the most optimistic and aggressive zodiac signs, Pisces is the most emotional, passive and pessimistic amongst the zodiac. His...

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RCB better prepared for CL T20, says Dravid

All set for the Champions League in South Africa, former RCB skipper and their premier batsman Rahul Dravid hoped the Anil Kumble-led side would replicate their performance the previous time there.“It is exciting to play the Champions League in South Africa,” said the right-hander here on Monday at a function organised to announce the winners of RCB’s Fanatic Fans Challenge -III.RCB’s stirring run in South Africa in 2009 after suffering four consecutive losses wasn’t lost on the former Indian captain. “We were among the better sides in the South African conditions as we showed during the second edition of the IPL,” he pointed out. Dravid...

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Bradman best: ‘scientific’ study’ [Dravid 10]

A‘scientific’ analysis of batting achievements in Test cricket has found what most people already know — that Don Bradman was the greatest batsman in the game. A paper, written by two economists, analysed factors such as consistency of scoring, value of a batsman’s runs to the team and home-away record, and found that the Australian great was leagues ahead of the rest on all counts.That’s hardly a surprise. But the paper has some far more...

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Pujaras, Rahanes and Pandeys can wait, India needs Dravid

ARTICLE BY DILIP VENGSARKARI really don’t know whether we will get players as focused, dedicated and disciplined as Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble. No wonder they all have played more than 15 years of international cricket and achieved great feats. Their performances on all kinds of wickets and in different conditions have been exemplary to say the least.Though Anil has retired and Sachin at present is batting as if he is in his early 20s, critics on the other hand want Rahul Dravid to quit and make way for a younger batsman. As Vijay Merchant used to say, call it quits when people ask why, rather than why not.I once asked...

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Is Rahul Dravid really out of form?

Purpose of this post? Well, you can judge from the title itself - because you (like me) too heard what Mr. Tony Greig said. One bad series and some people have already started to predict Rahul Dravid's retirement. So the question is - is "The Wall" crumbling? And the answer as usual is - NO. Lets take a look at what the statistics say- Check his scores in 2009 and 2010: India vs NewZealand 66 8* 83 62 35 60 India vs Srilanka 177 38 144 74 India...

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