Overview
- The BCCI message highlighted 509 international matches, 24,208 runs and 48 centuries, calling him the winning head coach of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024.
- Dravid served as India’s head coach from November 2021 to June 2024, a stint that included the 2023 ODI World Cup final and the 2024 T20 World Cup title.
- Across his playing career, he represented India in 164 Tests, 344 ODIs and one T20I after debuting in 1996 before retiring in 2013.
- Harbhajan Singh praised Dravid’s calming influence under pressure, Shikhar Dhawan lauded his class and cricketing mind, and IPL sides RCB, CSK, RR and MI posted birthday wishes.
- Media retrospectives revisited hallmark performances such as Adelaide 2003 (233 and 72*), Kolkata 2001 with VVS Laxman, Rawalpindi 2004, Johannesburg 1997 and Lord’s 2011, while noting his ODI reinvention to 10,889 runs and a one-off T20I cameo of three straight sixes.