It was 1996. Allan Donald was a superstar and a young Rahul Dravid was still finding his feet in international cricket. Donald was terrorizing India— as was the case when India were touring South Africa those days — when Dravid slapped a six over Donald’s head during an ODI at Kingsmead. Donald lost his head, said a few words to Dravid, and saw the next ball being flicked to the boundary.
That, in a nutshell, told us all about Dravid. Below the exterior of a courteous Bengaluru boy, there is a streetfighter who knows how to play the gentleman’s game the hard way.
But it isn’t exactly the image of “I am a tough guy” that he is trying to sell the world — ‘Indiranagar ka gunda’ only being a brilliant caricature of his own self. “Be aggressive when you need to be, but don’t make it your USP.” That has always been Dravid in his playing days. And now that he is the coach of the Indian team, it may not be too different.
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