The Indian captain is the world’s number 1 ranked batsman in ODIs for a period of over 1000 days now. He is the undisputed leader in the batting charts of the current generation when it comes to ODI cricket but he is in the number 2 position when it comes to test batsman ranking only behind the former Australian captain Steve Smith at the moment. Test match is the pinnacle of cricket and everyone aspires to be #1 in that format and so does Virat Kohli.
‘The Wall’ of Indian cricket as he’s popularly known – Rahul Dravid is one gentleman of the game. He commands respect wherever he goes because there were very few players who played the game as it should be as much as Rahul Dravid.
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In an interview with former India cricketer and present commentator Sanjay Manjrekar, Rahul Dravid spoke about how Virat Kohli will earn the respect of the people when he has his success in the most challenging format of cricket – The test match format. He said
“A good thing for India is Virat Kohli really values test cricket, he understands that the real respect for him as a cricketer will come from his success in test cricket
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Rahul Dravid after having retired from the game has taken up the coaching role. He is currently the head coach of the Indian Under-19 team and also the India-A team. Guiding the youngsters is something that Dravid loves and these Indian young cricketers will also not get a better person to learn from than the former captain himself. Rahul Dravid went on to say
I would say in my interaction with players, everyone’s hero is someone who has succeeded in all formats of the game. I think all players start off wanting to play all formats but then guys get a little realistic about their careers, superstars of the have will still want to play all formats of the game