Dravid rates Ganguly, Dhoni as best captains

Ganguly, Dhoni & Dravid

Rahul Dravid on Wednesday gave a huge thumbs-up to the captaincy skills of Sourav Ganguly and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, saying while the former was passionate about his job, the latter is "a great leader by example".

"All the captains had something. The two captains that I played under the longest were Ganguly and Dhoni. Both of them were right (for the job) at the time they led India," said Dravid.


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Some members were jealous of Dravid success: Greg Chappell

Chappell & Rahul Dravid

Former India coach Greg Chappell has ignited a fresh controversy in a newly-released book on Rahul Dravid, saying had the retired batting great received the same support that he gave other captains, he would have been the country's most successful skipper. Chappell wrote that despite Dravid guiding the Indian team to a number of victories, his success was not enjoyed by some of the members of the side.

"Sadly the success of the team was not universally enjoyed within the team. Some individuals felt threatened by the new world order and appeared to work against Rahul," Chappell has written in the book Rahul Dravid - Timeless Steel, which was launched here on Wednesday.

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Top 10 test run scorers in year 2011

Icc Cricket Records : Top 10 test run scorers in year 2011, Top ten test run scores, Leading test run maker, ICC rankings for Tests, Most runs in a year by a batsman in test match cricket, TOP RUN SCORES IN TEST IN 2011.

Highest Run Scorer in Test Matches, 2011

India’s Mr.Dependapble Rahul Dravid is the highest run scorer in Test Matches in the Calender Year 2011 with 1145 runs in 12 Tests. Dravid had a great run with 5 centuries and 4 half centuries with an average of 57.25. The former Indian’s Highest Score in the Calender Year is 146 not out coming against England.Dravid’s 3 out of 5 centuries in this calender year infact came against England!Following Dravid at no.2 is former Sri Lankan Captain Kumar Sangakkara with 1034 runs in 11 Tests this year. Interestingly, West Indies’ upcoming young talent Darren Bravo has also made his entry into the Top 10 run getters this season.

World’s best batsman Sachin Tendulkar had a moderate success this season with 756 runs in 9 Tests at an average of 47.25 and also just the one century in the whole year.
Here is the list of the Top 10 Run Getters of the Calender Year 2011 in Test Cricket :

Player	Tests	Innings	Runs	Highest Score	Average	100s	50s
RahulDravid (India)	12	23	1145	146*	57.25	5	4
Kumar Sangakkara (SL)	11	21	1034	211	49.23	4	4
Ian Bell (Eng)	8	11	950	235	118.75	5	2
Darren Bravo (WI)	10	20	949	195	49.94	3	3
Alastair Cook (Eng)	8	11	927	294	84.27	4	2
TaufeeqUmar (Pak)	10	19	831	236	46.16	3	3
VVSLaxman (India)	12	23	773	176*	40.68	1	6
Younis Khan (Pak)	8	12	765	200*	85.00	2	4
Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak)	10	16	765	102*	69.54	1	7
SachinTendulkar (India)	9	1	756	146	47.25	1	5

Dravid makes shock comeback to India's ODI squad

Rahul Dravid

Bangalore, August 6 (Yahoo! Cricket): Former India captain Rahul Dravid was the surprise inclusion in India's 16-man squad for the one-off Twenty20 international and the five-match one-day international series that will follow the Test series against England.

Dravid, who has scored 10765 runs at an average of 39.43 in 339 ODIs, last turned out for India in colored clothing during the Champions Trophy in South Africa in 2009. The experienced batsman has been the best Indian batsman on show in the first two Tests even as the rest of the famed batting line-up has struggled to cope with the seaming conditions in England, and this could probably be the reason Dravid has been included in the ODI squad by the selection committee headed by former skipper Krishnamachari Srikkanth.

As expected, Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh have been excluded because of injuries the pair sustained during India's humiliating 319-run defeat at Trent Bridge to go down 0-2 in the four-Test series and are out of action for four and three weeks respectively. While Yuvraj hasn't played an ODI since being named Man of the Tournament in the 2011 World Cup; Harbhajan has been far below his best in West Indies as well as England.

Swashbuckling opening batsman Virender Sehwag, who has recently regained fitness after his shoulder surgery in May, has been named vice-captain of the limited overs squads.

T20 & ODI Team Squad: MS Dhoni (capt and wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Parthiv Patel (wk), Amit Mishra, R Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Vinay Kumar.