| 
Posts and words
Loading ...I watched a full day’s cricket after a long time yesterday. And boy, I saw one of the best test innings in recent times. Flawless poetry, I would call it, from India’s greatest Test batsman ever.
Dravid passes 11,000
By Rich Abbott last year, mid-November Add your comment below
The website, HowStat, does a very good line in upcoming milestones. Hidden inbetween ‘Broad is four drinks breaks away from a double century of Powerade stops’ and suchlike, are some real gems. ‘Rahul Dravid needs another 173 runs to reach the 11,000 runs [in Tests] milestone’, was one such entry.
I noticed this last night, and by the time I woke this morning, it was redundant. Dravid ended the first day of India’s Test against Sri Lanka unbeaten on 177.
On the face of it, it seems strange that Rahul Dravid is the Indian batsman who’s captivated me most over the past decade and a half. He’s had plenty of esteemed company in that India top order: Tendulkar the freak (who even today shared Dravid’s limelight by celebrating 20 years at the top), Laxman’s touch of genius and Sehwag’s fireworks, to name just three, but I’ve always found Dravid the most inspirational.
The man himself sought inspiration from Steve Waugh, whose record he passed today to become the fifth highest run scorer in Test match cricket. In the foreword to the ex-Aussie captain’s autobiography, he focused, unsurprisingly, on his mental strength and determination. These aspects of Dravid’s own game are possibly overplayed – after all, it takes a special batsman to score so many runs – but they are his great, most admirable strength. “Steve’s legacy is hard to define, but I will remember him because he gave grit a good name,” he wrote. A good name that Dravid has continued.
Tags: milestones, rahul-dravid, steve-waugh |
One Response to “Dravid passes 11,000”
November 17th, 2009 at 4.46 am
Comments
« UWMBCA Welegedara | Main | Porky Patel’s battle against fat »
