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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
So Im sure he will be astonished to find that I have written at length about him. This is not meant to be a song of praise for him on his retirement; that is up to the rest of the world. I am his wife, not a fan, and the reason I am writing this is...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Focus is again back on master blaster Sachin Tendulkar's much-awaited 100th international century as India take on Sri Lanka in their first match of the Asia Cup at Dhaka on Tuesday. Tendulkar completed a year without a century on Monday as it was on...
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Daily Nation
| 1 year ago
Rating After a wonderful run in the Test series, Pakistan floundered in the one-day international series against England and are now looking forward to a better performance in the Asia Cup which starts this week in Bangladesh. Sri Lanka, whose win...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Imran Khan probably did it best, right after winning the World Cup...His last Test innings of 96 in Bangalore fell tantalisingly short of giving India victory in a series decider against Pakistan, but it was a master class on a wicket where the ball...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
One learns that the selectors were thinking that Laxman will take the lead and they are surely surprised by Dravid's sudden although he claimed it was a well-thought-out decision announcement. Now that it has happened, they are adopting a wait-and-...
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Telegraph India
| 1 year ago
They are legends of the game, enjoyed the sport and played with the right kind of spirit throughout. Anil (Kumble), Rahul, Sachin, (VVS) Laxman, Sourav (Ganguly), it's tough to replace them so there is no point thinking you have players who...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Rahul Sharad Dravid's sudden announcement of his retirement has come as a bolt from the blue to his fans across the world...A role model and a team man who puts the team ahead of anything and does whatever the team needs from wicket keeping to...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
According to Greg Chappell, Rahul Dravid was one of a kind and has truly done India proud...Subramanium Rahul's love for cricket and his commitment to fitness kept him in the game past the use-by-date Winston Churchill said Attitude is a little thing...
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Hindustan times
| 1 year ago
That's what Rahul Dravid's last act in international cricket taught us...If you finish the last lap on the shoulders of your teammates, in front of adoring fans, it's your luck. In professional sport, doing anything for sentiment has no place. In a...
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Hindustan times
| 1 year ago
After Rahul Dravid called it a day from international cricket, Pakistan's fast bowling legend Wasim Akram on Saturday admired the Indian batting great's ability to perform under pressure with his flawless technique and confidence. "He has been a...
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NewKerala
| 1 year ago
I will miss Rahul in the dressing room and out in the middle," Sport 24 quoted masterblaster Sachin Tendulkar as saying. Former India skipper and Karnataka team-mate Anil Kumble described Dravid as "the perfect ambassador" for cricket and an "ideal...
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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
The newspaper said that in addition to his impressive performance in Australia in the four visits Down Under, Dravid would long be endured for his honest views in his Sir Donald Bradman Oration which he delivered during the disastrous Test series...
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Rediff
| 1 year ago
T he 39-year-old is the one of the first of the so-called 'ageing greats' in Indian cricket -- Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman being the others -- to retire in the aftermath of India's disastrous Test tour of Australia. An honest go-getter who never...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
There's a pocket-size spiral-bound notebook of mine that I shall treasure from now on...My already high respect for Dravid the cricketer, Dravid the gentleman, Dravid the caring family man and Dravid the good human being all these aspects abide in...
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The Hindustan Times
| 1 year ago
Such is the rule of sport that all good things have to come to an end, and this time it was for someone who can finish with his head held high. There could have been ways in which he could have done it, but Rahul Dravid chose to do it his way, not at...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Rahul Dravid, one of the finest batsmen of his era, announced his retirement Friday to begin a changing of the guard in India's Test team. In a 16-year career, the 39-year-old Dravid built a reputation as a masterful batsman with immense powers of...
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Telegraph India
| 1 year ago
50 AM Sunset : 5:45 PM Today Mainly clear sky...Calcutta, March 9: It was around 11.10pm on Wednesday that Rahul Dravid called. After the pleasantries, Dravid hesitated before continuing: What I'm about to say is meant for you as a friend, somebody...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
Sweat, strive, struggle were an inseparable part of his cricket chores. The Test spot, batting slot, recognition, all had to be earned. This after being the most reliable, consistent and accomplished member of the team...For Rahul Dravid, cricket was...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
Rahul Dravid handled the press meet, where he announced his retirement, with the same poise and professionalsim that has come to symbolise the great man's 16-year chequered international career...Bhagya Prakash The initial minutes of Rahul Dravid's...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
For over a decade and a half it was such a pleasure to watch Rahul Dravid play the game as it was meant to be played in gentlemanly fashion. From an India cap aspirant in the mid-1990s, Dravid established himself as a pillar of strength on which...
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Rediff
| 1 year ago
rediff.com web Rahul Dravid in Facts and Figures Rahul Dravid: Facts and Figures Last updated on: March 9, 2012 16:16 IST Share this Ask Users Write a Comment Print this article Rajneesh Gupta Full Name: Rahul Sharad Dravid Born: 11 January 1973,...
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CricInfo
| 1 year ago
Rahul Dravid , who announced his retirement from international and domestic cricket on Friday, has said the next few years will be interesting and challenging times for Indian cricket and that he believed the next generation of batsmen are capable of...
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NewKerala
| 1 year ago
He tried to be perfect in everything he did both on and off the field. For 16 years, he played international cricket and outside of it in all forms of the game with dignity and humility. A gentleman-cricketer to the core. Spotted by coach Keki...
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NewKerala
| 1 year ago
Dravid is the second highest run scorer (13,288) in Tests after teammate Sachin Tendulkar. He has 36 Test centuries from 164 matches and scored at an average of 52.31. "I announce my retirement from all forms of international and domestic cricket. I...
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NewKerala
| 1 year ago
It was Rahul's determination, commitment, perfect technique which enabled him to play Test cricket for so many years. Youngsters also need to emulate his attachment to the game," said Ganguly, former Indian captain, after Dravid announced his...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
The cricketing world paid rich tributes to Rahul Dravid, lauding the batting legend's conduct on and off the field after he announced his retirement from international cricket at his home town Bangalore, Friday. India's legendary all-rounder Kapil...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Sport and fairytales do not always go hand in hand, and for Rahul Dravid, an otherwise glorious international cricketing career did not end in a befitting manner. His retirement from international and first class cricket Friday comes on the back of a...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Rahul Dravid, India's star batsman known as "The Wall," announced his retirement from international cricket Friday, saying, "I feel it is time to move on." Dravid, 39, earned 13,288 runs, in Tests (five-day games), second to fellow Indian Sachin...
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CricInfo
| 1 year ago
Rahul Dravid 's retirement from international cricket was announced at his home ground, the Chinnaswamy Stadium, in a function room filled with more than 200 people...The press conference began on schedule and, within three-quarters of an hour,...
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International Herald Tribune
| 1 year ago
Rahul Dravid Retires After 16-Year Career Published: March 9, 2012 The batsman Rahul Dravid announced his retirement from international cricket Friday at a news conference with the measured strokes and grace he has been lauded for on the cricket...
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BBC South Asia
| 1 year ago
Stories The late Peter Roebuck, one of the world's greatest cricket writers, once exclaimed that removing Rahul Dravid from the crease would possibly need gelignite, an explosive material invented by Alfred Nobel. Roebuck was observing Dravid...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Is Rahul Dravid the greatest middle-order batsman of all time? Rahul Dravid has retired from international cricket at the age of 39. The India middle-order batsmen scored over 13,000 Test match runs at an average of over 50. In a lengthy and...
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NewKerala
| 1 year ago
Cricket.' He said that 'all of us proud of having a player with great consistency and there is no replacable for Rahul.' 'It is a sad day since a player who rose from Club cricket to Ranji and to international level...Rahul) in a befitting manner...
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NewKerala
| 1 year ago
Dravid began his career playing college cricket and club cricket before going on to achieve international acclaim. For Sharad Dravid, father of the great cricketer Rahul, the day his son made his debut at Lord's in 1996 is still a great moment. 'It...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly feels that Rahul Dravid should have retired after his brilliant Test series in England and said today's decision did not come as a surprise. "I believe Rahul should have retired after the England series and not...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Rahul Dravid will go down in the annals of Indian cricket as a champion batsman who had no qualms about playing second fiddle during an illustrious 15-year career built upon the soundest of techniques. A purist's delight, Dravid will be fondly...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Story continues below "When I started, I could never imagine that this long journey will take me so far," Dravid said. "In the Indian team I was fortunate to be part of a wonderful era. "Many of my teammates have become legends, not just in India but...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
A list of the top 10 run-scorers in test cricket after India's Rahul Dravid retired from international cricket on Friday. (* still active) Player Country Span Runs 1...Shivnarine Chanderpaul* West Indies 1994- 9,709 (Compiled by Sudipto Ganguly in...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Rahul Sharad Dravid is born in Indore on 11 January 1973 and makes his first-class debut for Karnataka against Maharashtra in the Ranji Trophy just after his 18th birthday, scoring 82. He makes his India debut in a one-day international against Sri...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Only Tendulkar of the four has a higher overall Test average than Dravid's 52. Dravid and Ganguly both made their debuts on the tour of England in 1996. Wristy, shot-making players from the subcontinent have frequently been criticised for failing to...
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Hindustan times
| 1 year ago
Classy, conventional, cool in a crisis and controversy-free, Rahul Dravid is an idol and superstar of Indian cricket as well as a gentlemanly competitor revered by opponents the world over. The top-order batsman, who has anchored India's national...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Former players hailed Rahul Dravid, who on Friday retired from international as well as domestic cricket, as among the very best produced by India and said his contribution to Indian cricket has been huge. "Rahul was like the Great Wall of China for...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Announcing his retirement in Bangalore, Rahul Dravid said: I have played for 16 years but it's time to leave now for the new generation to come up and take responsibilities. I have many people to thank for supporting me and teaching me. My coaches,...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
Batting great Rahul Dravid, the second most prolific batsman in the game's history and India's middle order bulwark for years, on Friday bid adieu to Test cricket, bringing down the curtain on a glorious 16-year career. The 39-year-old Dravid, a...
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Rediff
| 1 year ago
The decision was not based on what happened in the last series. These decisions are based on a lot of other things, and not just one series...For me it has come with a bit of thought, completation with my family. It is difficult but you recognise...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
After standing tall for 15 years, Dravid is set to bring the curtain down on his illustrious international career. The Wall will no longer be there for Indian cricket to fall back upon. The world's second highest Test scorer second only to Sachin...
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Rediff
| 1 year ago
For batting ace Rahul Dravid, says Bikash Mohapatra, it was not just about playing the game...E ven as you read this Rahul Dravid will be giving finishing touches to his final speech to the media. Bowling will determine our Test future, says Dravid...
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NewKerala
| 1 year ago
Tendulkar said he will be missing Dravid, who made his international debut five years after the batting mestro donned the India jersey. "For me there's only one Dravid. I will miss him in the dressing room and on the field," he said. Dravid,...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
AFP Shane Watson, the stand-in Australian captain, has paid tribute to retiring batting great Rahul Dravid, describing his Indian Premier League teammate as a "phenomenal man" who will be sorely missed by the game. The Australians departed Sydney for...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
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