Tribute: THE WALL OF ONE DAY INTERNATIONAL

I am a huge fan of Rahul Dravid and yesterday Rahul Dravid The wall of Indian Cricket retired from one day internationals. In his last one day international against might England at Cardiff. In his last match he scored 69 runs to build the Indian innings to a challenging score of 304. He belongs to that cricket generation, where the motto was ''I am not giving you my wicket, if you want, then you have to go over my body''. In initial stage of his one day cricket he was dropped by saying that his style of cricket is inappropriate for one day cricket, but he worked hard and made a strong comeback proving his critics wrong, and then went on to become one of the legendary cricketers of one day game by scoring more than ten thousand runs. He made his ODI debut against Srilanka on April 3rd in Singapore. India won that match by 12 runs

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
ODIs	344	318	40	10889	153	39.16	15284	71.24	12	83	950	42	196	14

DRAVID'S BEST ODIs BATTING INNINGS

Rahul Dravid on the attack during his 63-ball 92 against England at Bristol in August 2007.

Rahul Dravid plays a shot during his brilliant 145 against Sri Lanka at Taunton in the 1999 World Cup.

Rahul Dravid celebrates after scoring his century against West Indies at Kingston in May 2006.

Rahul Dravid plays a sweep shot enroute to his 76* against Pakistan at Lahore in March 2004

WALL OF INDIAN CRICKET!!

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