Here is an incident about Rahul Dravid which shows you exactly how he was as a person. He truly described the saying "THERE IS NO SHORTCUT TO SUCCESS."
1996 January. Bengaluru. Conditioning camp of Indian cricket team. Azhar's team for ODI world cup will be announced later that day. Punjab opener Vikram Rathore was hopeful about getting a chance. After the team announcement, I went to Rathore's room at night to note his reactions. He was devastated for not making the cut. He made the following remarks: "I can't imagine they left me out. How can they? How can I forget this pain?" He later added, "My roommate(Rahul Dravid) is peculiar, he had no reaction at all. No disappointment, nothing. He(Rahul Dravid) heard the team, said: 'Oh, I'm not in it' and went straight out with his kits."
Fifteen years later, one night at a restaurant in Kolkata, Rahul Dravid would explain his silent exit from that Bengaluru hotel : "What could I have done? Cry loudly? Leave cricket? I quickly calculated (that) I'm getting four Ranji matches before team selection for the next England tour. I told myself not playing the world cup means you need four centuries in those four matches. (I) did that."
-- Goutam Bhattacharya, an expert from Anandabazar Patrika
And we all know what happened next, Dravid was selected in the test squad for five match series against England in England. Selection of Rahul Dravid in the test squad for England series was the outcome of his consistently scored heavy runs in previous domestic seasons. "Where there is a will there is a way."
June 20,1996. Second Test match of a five match series against England. Dravid, who didn't got a chance in first test despite scoring a fifty in each against the Gloucestershire and the Leicestershire county in the tour games was finally going to make his debut in second test due to the ankle injury to senior batsman Sanjay Manjrekar.
In his first match itself he has shown the sign of becoming a successful Test cricket, But who would have thought that this young man is going to be the finest no. 3 batsman ever! Coming at no. 7 he scored a majestic 95 on the classis track of lords, missing the century on debut and getting his name on lords' honour board by just 5 runs!!
He made his Test debut on 20th june,1996 and the rest is the History!!!
1996 January. Bengaluru. Conditioning camp of Indian cricket team. Azhar's team for ODI world cup will be announced later that day. Punjab opener Vikram Rathore was hopeful about getting a chance. After the team announcement, I went to Rathore's room at night to note his reactions. He was devastated for not making the cut. He made the following remarks: "I can't imagine they left me out. How can they? How can I forget this pain?" He later added, "My roommate(Rahul Dravid) is peculiar, he had no reaction at all. No disappointment, nothing. He(Rahul Dravid) heard the team, said: 'Oh, I'm not in it' and went straight out with his kits."
Fifteen years later, one night at a restaurant in Kolkata, Rahul Dravid would explain his silent exit from that Bengaluru hotel : "What could I have done? Cry loudly? Leave cricket? I quickly calculated (that) I'm getting four Ranji matches before team selection for the next England tour. I told myself not playing the world cup means you need four centuries in those four matches. (I) did that."
-- Goutam Bhattacharya, an expert from Anandabazar Patrika
And we all know what happened next, Dravid was selected in the test squad for five match series against England in England. Selection of Rahul Dravid in the test squad for England series was the outcome of his consistently scored heavy runs in previous domestic seasons. "Where there is a will there is a way."
June 20,1996. Second Test match of a five match series against England. Dravid, who didn't got a chance in first test despite scoring a fifty in each against the Gloucestershire and the Leicestershire county in the tour games was finally going to make his debut in second test due to the ankle injury to senior batsman Sanjay Manjrekar.
In his first match itself he has shown the sign of becoming a successful Test cricket, But who would have thought that this young man is going to be the finest no. 3 batsman ever! Coming at no. 7 he scored a majestic 95 on the classis track of lords, missing the century on debut and getting his name on lords' honour board by just 5 runs!!
He made his Test debut on 20th june,1996 and the rest is the History!!!
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