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Rupa Publications India A BIOGRAPHY OF RAHUL DRAVID by Devendra Prabhudesai
One of the most overused words in the cricketing dictionary is great”, because there are very few players in any country who qualify It is in any case a subjective view and all of us are limited by the number of players we have seen over the year when judging earlier players, we have to take the word of people We trust, who have in fact seen them play My view of Indian batsmen is that there have been a lot of very good ones, some able to play in all Conditions, some best when playing on their own pitchesI believe there are three great Indian batsmen and I put them in order of appearance on the Test scene – Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid Tendulkar and Gavaskar have given me many days of great enjoyment and Dravid in recent times has played some wonderful innings Attributes common to all three are courage and clear thinking and an ability to carry the attack to the opposition by keeping a step ahead of the bowle’ Richie Benaud The first Indian to score five double centuries in test cricket each of those five scores higher than the previous one