Rahul Dravid recalls a lesson learned while playing school cricket. Dravid recall a time in high school when he hit a century and was recognized under a different name.
Rahul Dravid, the Indian cricket team’s head coach and one of the greatest cricketers to have ever represented the country, has previously discussed how life lessons can be learned from the game of cricket. Dravid, who has 48 international centuries to his name, opened up about his first century in school cricket and how it taught him a lesson that he would carry with him for the rest of his life.
Dravid is currently with the Indian team in the West Indies, where they will face the Men in Maroon in three ODIs and five T20Is. India won the first two ODIs, both of which were nail-biting thrillers. Dravid will be hoping for a whitewash of the home team after sealing the series with a game to spare.
During the podcast ‘In the Zone’, hosted by Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra, Dravid recall a comical event in which his name misspelled as “David” in the press. This realization made him think that, despite scoring a century, he wasn’t very well-known at the time.
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I believe it was a valuable lesson for me: Rahul Dravid
“The editor obviously thought theres a spelling error and no one could be Dravid.” So it had to be David, right?” Dravid reflected on the incident.
“Because it’s a much more popular name.” So, I think its a good lesson for me to realize that, while I am happy and excited about scoring a century in school cricket, I still not well known. And no one knows what my name is. “They can’t even trust my name and have to change it,” Dravid continued.
But the kid made certain that everyone in India, as well as every publication, would remember his name for the rest of his life. Before this match, Rahul Dravid and Bindra had previously met. Dravid discussed how Bindra’s Beijing 2008 gold medal encouraged him to push himself while he was on the “wrong side of his 30s” and going through a difficult time at a book launch a few years ago.
“Abhinav’s accomplishment inspired me to give it one last push in my own career, to dig deep again and do whatever it took, no matter how difficult it seemed.” “His no-shortcuts, no-excuses approach is something we can all strive for, in whatever tasks we undertake, big or small,” he said at the Book Launch.
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