Rahul Dravid and Jacques Kallis: two solid batsmen – IPL 4
Rahul Dravid and Jacques Kallis are considered to be some of the finest batsman in the world. These two dynamic batsmen have the ability to face the impact of the fierce fast bowling at the beginning of the innings and ensure that their respective team gets
a good start. Both players will be looking to make a positive impact during the Indian Premier League.
Dravid opens for the Rajasthan Royals and Kallis is currently a part of the Kolkata Knight Riders batting line-up. High-lights of both solid batsmen is as follows:
Rahul Dravid was born on 11 January, 1973 at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Madhya-Pradesh-c809, India. He is a right-hand batsman who can bowl right-arm off spin bowling and has the capability of keeping the wickets as well.
He has played for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajasthan-c837 Royals.
Dravid is among one of the best batsmen India has ever produced, he is solid as a rock and has the quality to defend and attack as required by the situation. He bats with perfect timing, excellent placement of the ball and takes out hidden runs from the
gaps. Dravid is better known to be a Test player, as he has the quality to craft long innings but he is equally efficient in the shorter format of the game.
He is among the few batsmen who have scored 10,000 runs in Test and One Day International cricket. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rahul-c83321 is the only cricketer in the history of Test cricket who has thrashed a century against all Test playing nations of the world.
Dravid made his debut in T20 cricket appearing for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Karnataka-c801 against Gujarat on 17
April, 2007 which Karnataka won by four wickets.
He has played 57 T20 matches, scored 1288 runs at an average of 28.62 runs, the best of unbeaten 75 runs with six fifties.
Jacques Kallis was born on 16 October, 1975 at Pinelands, Cape Town in South Africa. He is a right-hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler.
He has played for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Middlesex-c817, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Warriors, Western Province and Kolkata Knight Riders.
He is a solid opening batsman in T20 cricket for his team and one of the best all rounders in modern day cricket. His solid technique of batting puts him among the top ranked batsmen in the world. Kallis has scored 11947 runs and has taken 270 wickets in
Test cricket, 11227 runs and 264 wickets in One Day International cricket. He has played quite a few match winning innings for his respective teams.
Kallis made his debut in T20 cricket against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 on 21 October, 2005 and has played 70 matches. He has scored 2165 runs at an average of 36.69 runs, the highest of unbeaten 89 runs with 20 fifties. Jacques has taken 38 wickets at an average
of 40.71 runs per wicket with the best of 3 for 16 runs.
Jacques has the capability to win a match single handed on his day. He is considered as one of the most dangerous players and the Kolkata http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Knight-c71599 Riders will anticipate a brilliant performance from him during this exciting tournament.
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