Rahul Dravid: Timeless Steel
Aakash Chopra
Language: English
Pages: 237
ISBN: B00DTU1U1Q
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Timeless Steel is a collection of 30 essays, new and previously published, on Rahul Dravid.
Greg Chappell remembers the India captain he worked alongside. Ed Smith, who shared a dressing room with Dravid at Kent, writes of a thorough gentleman. Sanjay Bangar relives the splendour of Headingley 2002. Jarrod Kimber tells of how Dravid became the reason for him getting married. Mukul Kesavan analyses how his technique allows for more style than one might assume. Sidharth Monga puts Dravid’s captaincy under the spotlight. Rohit Brijnath looks back at the twin peaks of Adelaide 2003. Vijeeta Dravid gives us a look at her husband the perfectionist.
Timeless Steel is as much a celebration of a colossal cricketer as it is of an exceptional human being. It features contributions from his team-mates and peers, some of the finest cricket writers around, and interviews over the years with Dravid himself. It attempts to paint a picture of a cricketer who embodied the best traditions and values of the game, and of a man who impressed the many people who came in contact with him.
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Days initially deserts him. “I didn’t feel in much control. I had to fight through periods, refocus, reminding myself of what I wanted to achieve. My goal was to not get out, to make it as difficult as I could.” He is both calm and desperate, driven by emotion yet aware it is dangerous. “I’ve been playing for seven years and we’ve lost a lot of games, and I was just fed up, and during many periods on Tuesday I kept telling myself I didn’t want to go through that again.” His batting is.
On first. On the 2011 tour to England, he made sure he sat in the same space in the Lord’s dressing room that Tillakaratne Dilshan had occupied when he scored 193 earlier in the season. In that game, Rahul got his first Test hundred at Lord’s. Despite all this preparation and attention to detail, once the game is on, he has this fantastic ability to switch off from it. At the end of the day’s play, he may be thinking about it, his batting may bother him, he will be itching to go back and try.
You’re getting casual or you’re not concentrating. For me it’s worked well with all the guys I’ve played with. Over the course of time it has built. I’ve had a good record with Veeru, Sachin, Laxman, because we’ve played together a long time. In a partnership, you don’t change your game. The conversations are different. Each one has his own unique conversations with you and you have your conversation with them. With Veeru, as you would expect, it’s probably a casual conversation – he brings.
In South Africa 30 930 84 44.28 64.89 0 10 70 4 in Sri Lanka 42 1156 104 38.53 68.60 1 8 88 3 Career averages Mat Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 4s 6s in UAE 17 538 92 31.64 59.57 0 4 41 0 in West Indies 15 408 105 34.00 68.11 1 2 38 4 in Zimbabwe 14 320 72* 32.00 74.94 0 2 27 0 home 97 3406 153 43.11 78.53 6 24 317 16 away 120 4044 123* 41.26 69.44 2 37 349 16 neutral 127 3439 145 34.04 67.11 4 22 284 10 1996 20.
6019 153 38.33 71.92 7 45 542 29 Career averages Mat Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 4s 6s won match 160 5729 153 50.69 75.27 8 47 506 26 lost match 165 4807 123* 31.01 67.24 4 33 408 15 tied match 2 42 23 21.00 55.26 0 0 5 0 no result 17 311 82 38.87 69.41 0 3 31 1 Tournament Mat Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 4s 6s World Cup 22 860 145 61.42 74.97 2 6 76 3 Asia Cup 13 334 104 37.11 78.22 1 2 29 1 Aus Tri Series (CB) 18 545.