Rahul Dravid - What would you do? Is he still one of India's 6 best batsman?

[centurymaker]

Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN Cricinfo

against any team with decent fast bowlers he's struggled. 24 test avg 30

Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN Cricinfo

18 tests avg 58

 

[Furball]

Dravid WAFG.

 

[centurymaker]

Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN Cricinfo

since start of last year

14 tests avg 43.5

 

[Xuhaib]

massive player would give an arm to have a player like him play for my team legend is an overused world but fits here perfectly.

 

[hang on]

Is it safe to call Dravid better than any other batsman in India's history barring Tendulkar and Gavaskar?

The comparison just hit me since Dravid is such a massivley underated player.

Thought that the cricketing cognoscenti had it as such. Tendulkar, Gavaskar, Dravid....the rest. With Gavaskar, in a few cases, trumping Tendulkar.

 

[Dissector]

There is no question that Dravid has struggled against good attacks in recent years. On the surface this hundred doesn't change that since the Windies attack is mediocre at best and Dravid should have been caugh early. Still the pitch was difficult so the overall level of challenge was quite high and Dravid did look pretty good while batting.

Overall I would say this innings does establish that Dravid is one of India's six best batsmen and deserves a place in the team against England. Whether he can regain his best form and succeed against England is still an open question.

 

[vcs]

Dravid's stats right now are looking extremely similar to Ponting's BTW.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/223646.html

Ponting : 152 matches, 259 innings, 12363 runs@53.52, 39 hundreds, 56 fifties
Dravid : 151 matches, 261 innings, 12215 runs@52.65, 32 hundreds, 59 fifties

 

[centurymaker]

Dravid's stats right now are looking extremely similar to Ponting's BTW.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/223646.html

Ponting : 152 matches, 259 innings, 12363 runs@53.52, 39 hundreds, 56 fifties
Dravid : 151 matches, 261 innings, 12215 runs@52.65, 32 hundreds, 59 fifties

Before ponting's 05-06 peak, they were regarded as similar sort of batsmen iirc.

 

[centurymaker]

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283010.html

Dravid holds the record for the most 90's.

 

[cricman]

Without Rahul Dravid, India would have been lost for past 2 months.

This is why it is important to show faith for players of his calibure.

I'd back Ponting to comeback strongly as well

 

[NasserFan207]

He's still got it, clearly.

 

[ankitj]

What a time to bump it up. Well played, Wall!

 

[centurymaker]

Without Rahul Dravid, India would have been lost for past 2 months.

This is why it is important to show faith for players of his calibure.

I'd back Ponting to comeback strongly as well

agree with all of it

 

[Howe_zat]

Reckon this Dravid's a promising player tbh. Could be pretty decent.

 

[Redbacks]

agree with all of it

and I hope the last prediciton comes true as well

 

[keeper]

Sheer, unadulterated class.

Never knew till now that his test batting average is higher than his Test bowling average. Great all-rounder rather than great batsman then?

 

[Jacknife]

Is he still one of India's 6 best batsman?

Errrrmmmm YES!

 

[Jono]

The great man has backed up my opening post in style.

 

[Daemon]

Love how all these threads are being answered after each day's play.

First it was Zaheer vs Cook, then PK, followed by Broad and lastly Dravid.

 

[Cevno]

Rahul Dravid likely to announce retirement shortly - The Times of India

Rahul Dravid likely to quit Test cricket shortly | Cricket News & Articles | CricketCountry.com


Have mantained for a while now, that he should be the first one to go probably( wanted him to retire after this series almost 1 year back expecting him to do well in England) but didn't want him to go this way if true.