Rahul Dravid has to be the most game-aware person that I have ever known: Ravichandran Ashwin

The No.1 Test all-rounder in the world, Ravichandran Ashwin has hailed his former India teammate Rahul Dravid and called him one of the most aware players the game has ever seen. Ashwin was who was present at the launch of Akash Chopra’s book Numbers Do Lie spoke at length about Dravid’s methods as a cricketer during his playing days.

”Rahul has to be the most game-aware person that I have ever known and this attribute often goes unnoticed, but then you have to sit back and admire this trait. Game awareness is often the most underrated parts of the team but when each of the 11 players think and know about their roles it takes the team well ahead of the competition. I witnessed it first hand against England and firmly believe that the English team were far ahead when it came down to game awareness than the other teams,” Ashwin was quoted as saying by Sportskeeda.

During the interaction, Ashwin was asked to compare between two stalwarts of the game Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. He rated both of them differently and said that in the 1990s and the early 2000s it was all about Sachin Tendulkar. “With Sachin you will have to consider the 1990s and early 2000s when he was just fantastic,” Ashwin said.

“Rahul Bhai was fabulous when it came to thinking about the game and he not only added value with his advice but also made sure that you are on the same page. His advices would not only be restricted to batting, well you associate batsmen with only their batting and they would more often than not be full of themselves and would only speak about their game. With Rahul bhai it was very different, he understood almost all the skillsets which is needed in the game and his nuances were fabulous. He also won quite a few matches as a captain and I am not one bit surprised,” Ashwin further added.

Also read: Foreign players of Peshawar Zalmi agrees to travel to Lahore if they qualifies for final

Former Aussie opener Matthew Hayden also hailed the former champion batsman. Speaking about Dravid the southpaw said, “Talking about game awareness and there was no better person than Rahul Dravid. There was no sense of superstition in his game and the way he set up his entire innings was just fabulous. He is probably the Ivan Lendl of cricket.”