Rahul Dravid
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"Rahul Dravid is a former Indian national cricket team/Indian cricketer and List of India national cricket captains/captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. Born in a Marathi people/Marathi family, he started playing cricket at the age of 12 and later represented the state team at the under-15, under-17 and under-19 levels. Hailed as The Wall, Dravid was named one of the best five Wisden Cricketers of the Year/cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2000 and received the ICC Player of the Year/Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year awards at the inaugural ICC awards ceremony in 2004. In December 2011, he became the first non-Australian cricketer to deliver the Bradman Oration in Canberra.

As of October 2012, Dravid is the fourth-highest Run (cricket)/run scorer in Test cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis, and is only the second Indian cricketer, after Tendulkar to score 10,000 runs both in Tests and in ODIs. In 2004, after completing his century against Bangladesh in Chittagong, he became the first and the only player till date to score a century in all the ten Test-playing countries. As of October 2012, he holds the record for the most number of catches taken by a player (non-wicket-keeper) in Test cricket, with 210.

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It was not that a single performance lifted us. It was a hard fight and we played good cricket. But we can't slip up as there is still a lot left in the series.

It is natural that if you play too much against one country people tend to lost interest.

Pakistan have got some good players all round. I think if we focus on just one or two players in the team, we will be making a mistake and I think if they focus on one or two players in our team, they will be making a mistake because we have shown over the last month that a lot of our guys are performing.

At the end of the day I think he believes that a captain must get what he wants. In fact, in a lot of ways we do a lot of things in my way.

He has proved his worth over the years and is always an asset to the side.

Last couple of months have been really good. There have been good performance from all the players.

There are some cracks on it but otherwise it looks a good track.

Every series is a challenge. We have prepared ourselves the best we can. We want to enjoy our cricket.

I am looking forward to the series, it should be a good one. We had a very good tour of Pakistan last time and I enjoyed the country and enjoyed going there. Hope the same this time.