Saturday, August 6, 2011

Rahul Dravid Made Dramatic Come back

Posted by Rajeev on 8/06/2011 06:48:00 PM Cricket , Rahul Dravid 5 comments

Rahul Dravid has been dramatically callback for the ODI series in England, starting Sep 3. INDIAN selection committee has include dravid in the squad of 15 players Dravid who had played his last ODI match against West Indies in the Champions Trophy at Johannesburg, Sep 30, 2009, has made a came back after nearly two years.
Dravid who seems to be only inform player for INDIA had scored back to back centuries in ongoing test series in England. He had scored 3 centuries in 5 matches, probaly this made selector to pick him up. Also no other player is doing well for INDIA so his selection was made.
So Far Dravid had played 339 ODIs in which he has scored 10,765 runs at an average of 39.43 which include 12 centuries and 82 half-century with high score of 153. Due to injured Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh are out of the team.

Squad: MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag (vice-capt), Rahul Dravid, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Parthiv Patel (wk), Amit Mishra, R Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Vinay Kumar