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This is a great article on Rahul Dravid at Sportskeeda.com.The article is a must read for all die hard Dravid fans.

Batting at No.3 in a line-up is one of the toughest jobs in cricket. It calls for extreme precision and focus of the highest order for a prolonged period of time. In a cricket mad country which has produced several gems in the sport, one rare gem bats at No. 3, ever ready to shoulder the burden of the team, seldom disappointing fans. He is Rahul Dravid, ‘The Wall’ of India.

Read the full article at: http://www.sportskeeda.com/2011/07/26/rahul-dravid-the-unsung-hero-of-indian-cricket/#

Rahul Dravid and Brian Lara at West Indies in 2006.

Rahul Dravid and Brian Lara

The 2011 Cowdrey Lecture Panel discuss about cricket when Sangakkara describes Rahul Dravid's admiration for Brian Lara.He says the incident happened when they all were playing for a charity match where Sangakkara and Dravid were playing for the same team and Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara for the opposing team.When Sachin got out and Brian Charles Lara came on to bat when Dravid openly told him his admiration for Brian Lara.You have to watch this video friends.Don't miss this.



Sangakkara speaking about Rahul Dravid's admiration for Dravid.

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Brian Lara and Rahul Dravid.

Rahul Dravid now has a new record to his name.He is the highest rungetter in fourth innings of a test match,he has surpassed Brian Lara to achive this feat who had 1440 runs, While Dravid now has 1468 runs to his name.Dravid has scored one century and nine 50's in fourth innings for India.While Sunil Gavaskar is the only other bastmen in top five in the list with 1398 runs to his name, While Sachin Tendulkar is 7th in this list with 1371 runs to his name.No other Indian Batsmen other than this three have made it to the top 10 of this list.

I got the stats from Rediff page.

Rahul Dravid

Despite Rahul Dravid's heroic century in 1st Innings to avoid follow on and Suresh Raina's heroic fight back in the second innings England managed to get India all out before 30 overs were left to play.at the start of the session today we lost 3 wickets in the first session of Rahul Dravid,VVS Laxman and Tendulkar.Dravid and Laxman looked in top form when an error very unlikely of Dravid came when he edged the bowl to England keeper Matt Prior.Then Sachin came on to bat and looked agressive at start hitting a century initially but then went on to a defensive play.Sachin just managed 12 runs from 68 balls.Sachin was suffering from viral fever.These were the three wickets which fell in the first session and then the next session we lost the wicket of Gautam Gambhir.Things were looking worse for India when Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Suresh Raina kept a partnership going and at that point we were in hope of saving this test match but that all ended when Dhoni edged one to the keeper of Tremlett's bowling.Broad came soon and a had a huge lbw appeal of Suresh Raina turned down, Which was hitting middle stump and was also in line,The decision was turned down by Billy Bowden.After Dhoni's departure came Harbhajan Singh who looked very defensive at start and looked dangerous as he went on.He hit two cracking fours before he got out Tremlett as again he proved his weekness to short balls.Praveen Kumar came on to bat after that and had a short life scoring 2 from 9 balls and then came Zaheer Khan on to bat.Suresh Raina was the next to go edging it to the slips and finally Tremlett got Ishant Sharma caught behind the stumps and England were the happier side winning by a huge margin of 196 runs against the world champions.

Indian team morale was down due to a lot of reasons starting with Zaheer's and Gambhir's injury and then Sachin's viral fever.But we are a champion team and should not complaint.Looking forward to a great second test on Friday.

Rahul Dravid

What a showdown.India now needs to achieve a target of about 378 with 9 wickets in Hand.The second Innings for India had started with Dravid coming up as an opening player to substitute Gautam Gambhir to a hospital for scanning his injured hand.Now VVS laxman came in at number 3 as Sachin also is down with fever and will be batting lower in the order.