MUMBAI: He is one of the most successful test batsmen of India. He is popularly known as The Wall. We are of course talking about Rahul Dravid.

Rahul Dravid has won audience’s hearts with his incredible cricketing skills. The former cricketer is also known as Mr Dependable for his immense capability to score in the most hostile situations. 

The handsome sports icon started playing cricket at the meager age of 12 and the rest is History.

But do you know he first played Hockey before taking to cricket?

Yes, you read that right!

In an old interview, Rahul Dravid had revealed why he went ahead with cricket. He told PTI, “I used to play hockey with (former India international) Sandeep Somesh in school days. Our coach Shiv Prakash fielded me as the centre-half saying we are relying on you for a stuff like that. But when I graduated to another level, Sandeep also was there. The coach then relegated me to right-half and I quickly realized I am not cut-out for hockey. Luckily I had cricket to root for.”

We wonder how things would have been had he played hockey and not cricket!

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