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The news is that Rahul Dravid, a stalwart of the Indian cricket team, has decided to retire<\/a>. As the<\/a> platitudes<\/a> pour<\/a> in<\/a>, and the highlights of his career are analyzed<\/a>, Centives found a statistic that few are likely to pick up on.<\/p>\n Overall, across his career, Dravid ended with a Test average of 52.31, and an ODI average of 39.16.<\/p>\n Rahul Dravid married Vijeta Pendharkar on the 4th<\/sup> of May, 2003<\/a>. Between the date of their wedding and their one year anniversary he averaged 95.43 in Test cricket, with two of his three highest Test scores<\/a> coming in this period. He also averaged an amazing 41.77 in ODIs.<\/p>\n Dravid’s first son, Samit, was born on October 11th<\/sup>, 2005<\/a>. Between Samit’s birth and his first birthday Dravid averaged 62.00 in Tests and 44.11 in ODIs.<\/p>\n His second son, Anvay, was born on April 27th<\/sup>, 2009<\/a>. By that time Dravid had ceased to be a regular fixture in the ODI side, but within the first year of his son’s life he averaged 95.33 in Tests.<\/p>\n The numbers indicate that over his career Rahul Dravid used his family as a source of inspiration and achievement.<\/p>\n Enjoyed reading this? You might want to like our Facebook page <\/a>or follow us on Twitter<\/a>. You should also check out some of our Greatest Hits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The news is that Rahul Dravid, a stalwart of the Indian cricket team, has decided to retire. As the platitudes pour in, and the highlights of his career are analyzed, Centives found a statistic that few are likely to pick up on. Overall, across his career, Dravid ended with a Test average of 52.31, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030912_0753_RahulDravid1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}