Rahul Dravid's Cricket Career

• 1973 - born January 11, 1973 in Indore
• 1984 - attended a summer coaching camp at KSCA's Chinnaswamy Stadium where his talents were spotted by former cricketer turned coach Keki Tarapore.
• scores his first century in an unofficial match for his school team St.Joseph's against St.Anthony's.
• scores a double hundred for the Karnataka schools team which he smashed against Kerala.
• selected for the under-15 Karnataka team.
• senior cricketers and administrators like G.R.Vishwanath, Roger Binny, Brijesh Patel and coach Keki Tarapore felt that it would suit Rahul better if he bid good-bye to the wicket keeping gloves for ever.So Dravid concentrated on his batting from then on.
• 1991 - Ranji debut against Maharashtra.
• 1996 - scores double century in the finals of the Ranji Trophy in 1996 against Tamil Nadu.
• 1996 - selected for India.
• 1996 - test debut at Lords, England after Sanjay Manjrekar is injured and Navjot Sidhu descides to stay back after fracas with Captain Azharuddin.Scores a brilliant 95.
• 1997 - Scores his maiden test hundred(148) Vs South Africa, third test, Johannesburg.
• 1997 - Scores his maiden one day hundred(107) in a losing cause Vs Pakistan, Independence Cup, Chennai.
• 1999 - Scores a hundred in both innings (190,103) against New Zealand in Hamilton.
• 1999 - Great World Cup, scores 3 fifties and 2 hundreds scoring 461 runs which was the highest by any batsman from any team.
• 1999 - In october he signs a deal with English county Kent for the 2000 season.
• 2001 - Scores 180 while Vangipurappu Laxman makes 281 in a fifth-wicket stand of 376 as India defeat Australia after following on to end Australia's 16-Test winning streak.
• 2004 - Scores career best 270 against Pakistan at Rawalpindi.India wins the series.
• 2005 - Appointed captain of Team India.
• 2005 - Dravid's Biography "The Nice Guy Who Finished First" authored by Devendra Prabhudesai released by coach Greg Chappell.
• 2006 - Dravid scores his first century as the Test captain of the Indian Cricket team in the first test against Pakistan in Lahore.