Known as the Wall due to his ability to bat for long durations, and Jammy due to his endorsement of Kissan, a jam company, and also because his father worked for Kissan, Dravid holds multiple world cricketing records. He is the second Indian batsman, after Sachin Tendulkar, and the third international player to have scored more than 12,000 runs in Test cricket. On 14 February 2007, he became the sixth player in the history of world cricket and the third Indian, after Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, to score 10,000 runs in ODI cricket. He is the first and the only batsman to score a century in all ten Test playing nations.With more than 199 catches, Dravid currently holds the world record for the highest number of catches in Test cricket Dravid has also been involved in more than 80 century partnerships with 18 different partners and has been inolved in 19 century partnerships with Sachin Tendulkar world record.
Contents
* 1 Personal life
* 2 Early years
* 3 International career
* 4 Dravid in World Cups
* 5 Style
* 6 Personal records
o 6.1 Tests
o 6.2 One Dayers
* 7 Captaincy
o 7.1 Achievements
o 7.2 Criticism
* 8 Teams
o 8.1 International
o 8.2 Indian first-class
o 8.3 Indian Premier League
o 8.4 English county
* 9 Timeline
* 10 Career highlights
o 10.1 Tests
o 10.2 One-Day Internationals
* 11 Achievements
o 11.1 Awards
o 11.2 Test Cricket Awards
o 11.3 ODI Matches
o 11.4 Career Best Performances
* 12 Controversies
o 12.1 Ball-Tampering Incident
* 13 Biographies
o 13.1 Endorsements
* 14 References
o 14.1 External links
Personal life
Dravid was born in Indore, Madhya Prades into a Maharashtrian Deshastha famil living in Karnataka. His paternal ancestors were Iyers from Thanjavur,Tamil Nadu.He grew up in Bangalore, Karnataka.He has a younger brother, Vijay. Both the brothers grew up in a simple middle class atmosphere. Dravid's father worked for Kissan, a company known for producing jams and preserves and thus he earned the nickname Jammy from his teammates at St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore. His mother, Pushpa, was a professor of Architecture at Bangalore University.Rahul Dravid has a degree in commerce from St Joseph's College of Commerce Bangalore, Karnataka. On 4 May 2003, he married Dr. Vijeta Pendharkar, a surgeon from Nagpu and on 11 October 2005, their son, Samit, was born.On 27 April 2009, Vijeta gave bito their second son, Anvay
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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 selected to make his Ranji Trophy debut in February 1991 against Maharashtra in Pune while still attending college at St. Joseph's College of Commerce in Bangalore alongside future Indian teammates Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath, scoring 82 in a drawn match after batting in the No. 7 position.His first full season was in 1991-92, when he scored two centuries to finish with 380 runs at an average of 63.3 and was selected for South Zone in the Duleep Trophy.[21]International career

















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