BCCI to bid farewell to Rahul Dravid next week – Cricket News Update
The Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 on March 27, 2012.
This was revealed by the BCCI in a press release, today, Wednesday, 21 March 2012.
"The BCCI will felicitate Mr. Rahul Dravid on Tuesday, 27 March 2012, at the Seaside Lawns, Taj Land's End, Bandra, Mumbai," read a Board statement published on the BCCI’s official website on Wednesday.
The high profile farewell ceremony will be attended by current and former Indian players and captains, the current and former BCCI officials and members of his family.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Dravid-c2229, the 39-year-old middle-order mainstay of the Indian cricket team and a former captain of the national team, called it a day to his 16-year-long international career in Bangalore on March 9. He became the first of the three ageing veterans of
Indian cricket, besides http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 earlier this year, which saw the Men in Blue succumbing to their second successive offshore Test series
whitewash.
During an international career spanning 16 years, between 1996 and 2012, the Indian batting veteran played 164 Tests compiling a tally of 13288 runs at an impressive average of 52.31, which included 36 centuries and 63 half centuries.
He also played 344 One Day International for India, scoring 10889 runs at an average of 39.16. The tally also included 12 hundreds and 83 fifties.
Meanwhile, Rahul Dravid became the first Indian to speak in favour of the tainted young Pakistani pacer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Amir-c76675, saying it would be great if the teenager makes a comeback to competitive cricket after serving a five-year ban imposed on him by the International
Cricket Council for his involvement in spot-fixing during the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 tour of 2010.
"He's a superb player and when he's served his ban, I'd hope he'd be able to come back. It's not easy to stay away from the game for so long, to not play it, and be able to come back," said Dravid during an interview to BBC Sport.
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