Dravid's Debut in Cricket - Part 2

       As like 1992-93 season, Dravid went on with his impressive knocks in 1993-94 season as well.. He scored 93 runs for Rest of India in the Irani Trophy under the captaincy of Sanjay Manjrekar against punjab.. Later on he represented South zone in the Duleep Trophy scoring 67 and 148 against central zone..This made the national selectors to call Dravid for replacing Manoj Prabakar and Nayan Mongia due to some slow batting issues in the tri-series comprising West Indies and New Zealand.. Despite being selected for the national team, Dravid couldn't make into the playing eleven amidst many stalwarts in the team.. 

Continuing back in first class matches, Dravid was playing his part for SAARC cup, Board President's XI..At the end of 1994-95 season, Dravid scored more than 1000 first class runs.. Then comes the 1995-96 Ranji season  in which Dravid has an average of 80.66 in just 11 matches with 5 centuries and 3 half-centuries.. Despite having loads of runs under his bat, Dravid couldn't make into the selection of World Cup 1996.. It was all because the presence of some experienced players like Sidhu, Kambli, Ajay Jadeja, Sanjay Manjrekar, Sachin Tendulkar and the captain Azharuddin.. Later Dravid was selected for Singer Cup series..Dravid made his ODI debut on 3rd April, 1996 against Sri Lanka in which he scored only 3 runs...Then he got to score 107 runs, his maiden ODI century against Pakistan in 1997 at M.A.Chidambaram stadium, Chennai.

Here's the beginning - Brick by brick

 Rahul Dravid -  The name you can see anywhere in the batting order in the history of Indian cricket.

As a die-hard fan of RD, I would like to start describing about this selfless Indian Cricketer with one of my favorite quote on him by N.S.Sidhu, former Indian Cricketer. I hope this would be a favorite one for any RD fans..
Here it is

"Rahul Dravid is a player who would walk on broken glass if his team asks him to..."

That was exactly a fact.. It clearly proves about him that he is a perfect 'Team-man'. Apart form this, he is widely respected not only by own his team-mates ,but also by all cricketers from other nations..

Lets start off from the childhood of Rahul Dravid :

Rahul Sharad Dravid was born in a maharashtrian brahmin family in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
Later his family moved on to Bangalore, Karnataka where he has grown up. Rahul's father is Mr.Sharad Dravid who was working in a jam company(kissan) which led dravid to be called as 'jammy' by his friends & teammates. Rahul's mother is Mrs.Pushpa Dravid who was a professor of Architecture at the UVCE, Bangalore. Rahul has a younger brother named vijay.