New Delhi. Do you know that former Indian captain and current head coach of Team India, Rahul Dravid has played cricket for any country other than India. Yes, this happened after the 2003 World Cup. Then the Indian team led by Sourav Ganguly played the final of the World Cup. But he was defeated by Australia. It was only after this tournament that Dravid played for Scotland. A picture related to this was shared by Scotland Cricket on its Twitter account and wrote, “When Rahul Dravid, a world class batsman and current head coach of the Indian cricket team, played cricket for Scotland in 2003.”
On this tweet from Cricket Scotland, a user wrote, “Really interesting! Wondering how Rahul Dravid can play for Scotland as well when he was playing for India in 2003? After this many Indian fans gave their reaction on this.
A throwback to when world class batter and current India Men’s head coach Rahul Dravid donned the Saltire in 2003 pic.twitter.com/2yAkYBEhk7
— Cricket Scotland (@CricketScotland) November 18, 2021
According to a Wisden report, Dravid had signed a contract of £45,000 for 3 months in 2003 to play for Scotland. It was funded by an NRI, who used to raise money through special events. At that time the Scotland Saltires were promoted to the National League of England for 3 years. Under this agreement, Dravid played 11 ODIs for the Scotland cricket team. All these matches were against different county teams.
Dravid made his debut against Hampshire. In the first match, this former Indian batsman scored 25 runs in 41 balls. However, after this a lot of runs came from his bat. He scored a century against Somerset and then played an unbeaten 129 against Nottinghamshire.
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Dravid had also landed in a match against Pakistan
Apart from this, Rahul Dravid also played against Pakistan in a tour match for Scotland. But in this match, he was out on the very first ball without opening the account.
Dravid scored 600 runs for Scotland
In his 11 matches for Scotland, Dravid scored 600 runs at an average of 66.66 and a strike rate of 92.73. The current head coach of Team India had scored 3 centuries and two half-centuries for Scotland in the National Cricket League.
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