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September 16, 2011
Sachin Tendulkar praised the contribution teammate Rahul Dravid in the Indian team in limited overs format, describing it as a "model" and "unsung hero of the Indian team."
Dravid, who announced his retirement from limited-overs form of the tour of England, is appearing in his last game in the fifth and final ODI in Cardiff on Friday. Tendulkar, who has been ruled out of ODI series due to injury, Dravid praised the work ethic and his ability to "stay one step ahead of the game."
"When he started playing ODI cricket, he encountered some initial difficulties, but it has never been one to give up," Tendulkar told the Indian Express. "He worked very hard on his mistakes and meant to fight. "
Career strike accounts for just over 71, Dravid is often labeled as inappropriate for a shorter game format, that you do not agree with Tendulkar. "You can not give a quick start, but it certainly has done his time spent counting innings fold. You these players to the team, and he was the best man for the job. Another team plays around him, but Rahul fought like the situation required. Not so, he could not bat in a hurry, he just made sure that the situation has wrought.
"Rahul also has the ability to finish the game, and I remember that he played the same position No. 5, or at any other place in the batting order. And it was one of the main reasons has maintained its role as a prominent member of the side ".
Anil Kumble India's former captain Dravid, who was also of Karnataka was echoed by fellow Tendulkar view.
"He [Dravid] is not a person who goes out and Tonk sixes at will, but it gets the job done," Kumble wrote a column in Hindustan Times. "Rahul's approach has changed in a way, he uses the bowlers hand, seems to take the first single, and the government to keep ticking over."
Of the 343 ODIs played in Dravid, kept wickets in 73 of them. Began keeping windows when Sourav Ganguly was the captain, a move that Ganguly said, "cricket in India should be grateful to Rahul."
"Rahul was a mixture of a career day and took a new turn when he decided to keep wicket in 2002," Ganguly wrote the Hindustan Times column. "His decision was certainly a team, how he helped to reorganize the Middle and add depth to it."
Both Tendulkar and Kumble said that one of the turning points in the ODI Dravid's career was when he started to take wickets. "And 'a man full team, when he was asked to keep wickets, we all knew, that is doing well because it was the first wicketkeeper. Later, it helped, and there was a great help to us all of the Indian team during the Cup World 2003. He got better during the day the campaign, and even managed to score runs quickly into a bat, "Tendulkar said.
"The best phase of his career ODI was in about four years when he was a wicketkeeper, and knocked at No. 5," said Kumble. "It has established itself as a great finisher, and he was batting his side as the likes of Yuvraj and Kaif really matured in the race for the 2003 World Cup."a
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