Born on January 11, 1973, Indore (India) to Brahmin Marathi-speaking family. Rahul Dravid grew up in Bangalore where there was a jam and preserves company run by his father Sharad while his mother Pushpa worked with the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering as an architect.
Dravid has also been blessed with a younger sibling known as Vijay. In adolescent stages he studied at St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School before proceeding to St. Joseph’s College of Commerce for his degree in commerce later registering for MBA at St. Joseph’s College of Business Administration. This goes to show that education has been invaluable in nurturing Dravid’s passion for cricket due to its solid academic foundations as evidenced by his educational credentials.
As such, he became one of the best-known cricketers in India due to these factors which were deeply rooted in his early life and schooling stages forming part of character building and professional discipline developments respectively.
Rahul Dravid’s net worth:
Rahul Dravid, the famous Indian cricketer is estimated to have a net worth of $40 million. Being one of the most successful batters in cricket ever, Dravid played International cricket From 1996 to 2012 and had as many as 24,177 international cricket runs to his credit. He played a very important role in India’s triumph on the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy.
After retiring from active cricketer, Dravid turned into head coach and led India to triumph in the 2023 Asia Cup and the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. The performance’s outstanding results as a player and a coach have made him a true figure of cricket that inspires the new generation of players and viewers.
Rahul Dravid’s Coaching Career:
From 2015 to 2021, Rahul Dravid was the head coach of the India A and U19 teams. During his time as coach of the U19 cricket team, he led them to win the 2018 ICC U-19 World Cup. Furthermore, Dravid continued to captain the senior national team from 2021 up till 2024.
Under his guidance, India enjoyed near-perfect performance finishing second in both the 2023 ICC World Test Championship and the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup. The highlight was when under him they bagged the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup title. This conclusion is derived from how much these coaching abilities have moulded this team, suggesting that nurturing could evolve into specifying certain results.
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