Gautam Gambhir has been the only name that can replace the Wall (Rahul Dravid) to some extent in the Indian cricket dressing room and team. Though not yet successful till now as Dravid was, Gambhir is slowly but steadily making a name for himself with his solid defense, temperament, and captaincy.

The stylish cricketer is the only Indian batsman to score more than three hundred runs in four consecutive test series and the only Indian to score five hundreds in five consecutive test matches. Gautam Gambhir made his one day debut against Bangladesh in the year 2003 and test debut against Australia in 2004.

Gambhir was a part of the Indian cricket team that won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 against Pakistan in the final in South Africa. He was the top run scorer for India in this tournament with 227 runs at an average of 37.83 that included an important 75 runs off 54 balls in the final.

The best phase of Gautam Gambhir’s career came in 2008 when he scored 858 runs at an average of over 61 in 7 matches that included a double century against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. He was picked up by the Delhi Daredevils in the first IPL auction in 2009 and became the second highest run-scorer of the inaugural season with 534 runs from 14 matches. He went on to became the captain of Delhi Daredevils in 2010 and was auctioned to Kolkata Knight Riders for $2.4 million making him the highest paid cricketer in the history of the game and is now the team’s captain.

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Rahul Sharad Dravid, popularly known as Rahul Dravid or The Wall, is one of the most experienced and stylish batsman in the world of world cricket. The Indian batsman possesses strong batting skills and has been always admired as an agile fielder in the slips.

Born on 11 January 1973 at Indore (M.P.), Rahul Dravid is also known by the name “Jammy” as his father used to work in Kissan (a company known for producing jams) and has also kept wickets for India. In 142 test matches and 339 one-day internationals, Dravid has scored 11,490 and 10,765 runs, respectively. Dravid holds the unique record of scoring a century against all ten Test playing nations, while being away from home, presently holds the world record for the most number of catches by a non-wicketkeeper (188) in the world of test cricket. Rahul Dravid also holds the distinction of being involved in 80 century partnerships with 18 different partners.

Rahul Dravid made his test debut on 20 June 1996 v England and ODI debut on 3 April 1996 v Sri Lanka. Dravid’s solid defense was appreciated by one and all when he joined hands with VVS Laxman to share a fifth wicket partnership of 376 runs in the second innings of the second test of a three match test series against Australia at Kolkata in 2001. In the 1999 World Cup, Dravid became the only Indian to score back-to-back centuries in the World Cup (110 vs. Kenya and 145 vs. Sri Lanka).

Rahul Dravid is still not short of the hunger to score runs, almost at will, much to the delight of cricket lovers across the world.

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