5 of cricket's most articulate personalities

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#4 Rahul Dravid (India)

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Rahul Dravid had a short burst in the commentary box after he retired from the game in 2012

The epitome of excellence and consistency, Rahul Dravid, throughout the span of his 16-year-long career, had established himself a batsman that his team could depend upon in any situation. The testimony to this is his run tally across formats – 13288 in Tests at 52.31 and 10889 in ODIs at 39.16.

Apart from his run-scoring prowess, Dravid proved out to be an excellent captain of the team as well, as he led India to away Test series victories in the West Indies and England in 2006 and 2007 during his captaincy stint that lasted for more than two years, from 2005-2007. After retirement, the Karnataka cricketer took the onus of preparing the next generation of Indian cricketers, as he volunteered for the role of the head coach of India ‘A’ and as well as India Under-19.

However, it isn’t just to the field that his skills have been limited to. Dravid, for one, is an excellent orator as well, the testimony to which has been his role as a commentator that he performed for a short span of time before taking up the mantle as the head coach of the junior teams. Dravid became the first non-Australian to be invited for delivering the Sir Donald Bradman Oration Lecture, 2011 (its 10th edition) in Canberra. He also delivered the MAK Pataudi Lecture for the session 2015-16 in December last year.

Just like Sangakkara, Dravid too got involved as a cricket administrator post his playing days. Had it not been for his current role, we would have had the privilege to listen to Dravid’s voice while watching India play a cricket match.

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