Hrishikesh Pallod

"He's not good enough to play One Day Internationals", they said.  How many people go on to score 10,889 runs in ODI cricket after being pulled down like that?  With a methodical and technically perfect approach Rahul Dravid took Indian Cricket to a whole new level. His contribution alone is equivalent to the combined contribution of ten other successful players. May be the statistics don’t reflect this, but we all know to what extent he can go for any team he plays for. When you don’t have a captain, you go to Dravid, you don’t have a wicket keeper, you ask Dravid to keep, you can’t find an opening partner for Viru, you promote him up the order. The comparison with Sachin is inevitable.  Sachin was the reason I started watching Cricket, but Dravid gave me the reason to keep watching cricket. Unlike all big players Rahul Dravid  never played for his fans, he played for the team and HE PLAYED FOR THE GAME. He played Cricket the way it was intended to...

                'God of Cricket', ‘The Wall’, ‘God of the offside’, ‘God of the second innings'.. these titles are testimony to their unforgettable and ineradicable contribution to the game . Anil Kumble and Saurav Ganguly retired in 2008, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman retired this year. These four members along with Sachin Tendulkar have been the pillars of the team for a long time. Pillars that stood tall and compelling when the ‘invincible’ Aussies ruled the world but India. Back then, having nightmares in India was a common thing for legends like Warne, Akhtar, Lee, Mcgrath, and others.                           Ganguly and Dravid, after a not-so-successful ODI debut, got a chance to play in a test match after a couple of senior players got injured. Little did the world know, that the match they were ab...