The uncrowned superstar: Rahul Dravid

First person to catch the ball 200 times ... Not so tough is it!! Try doing this in international cricket and it will take you 15 years.. Third cricketer ever to score 12000+ runs in test cricket.. He has been part of more than 80 century partnerships , a record in itself.. And not an ounce of complacency has creeped into this man whom i personally refer to as the true blue gentleman of the gentleman's game.. In the middle of october, while we were on an industrial visit , me and my friend arun were standing near the visvesarayya museum .. That is when i glanced upon a floodlight stand sprouting from a clutter of trees.. Dragging my reluctant friend along with me , crossing the road at the anil kumble square, i stood before the gates of the chinnaswamy stadium, which many bangaloreans aka software engineers and more software engineers take for granted...

beyond the gates was the "wall" a wall erected in honour of the dravidji that we know of.. The same one who doesn't care whether its shoaib akhthar or brett lee bowling... dragging their spike clad shoes running with the wind and bowling at unimaginable paces , the ball stops its motion with a mere touch of his bat! The bowler, astonished, tries the trick again and again but to no avail!! Commitment consistency and Class, the words imprinted on the wall at chinnaswamy are the words inscribed in our minds when we hear the name dravid.. This man was denied a slot in the Indian world cup team, (which by the way features half the chennai super kings) , yet he did not complain and he did not whine, ..That is the story of a true gentleman!!