Why did Rahul Dravid leave India and start playing for this country? He had scored a lot of runs

Rahul Dravid is counted among the great players of India. He represented the Indian team from 1996 to 2012. In his 16-year career, he played 509 matches, in which he scored more than 24 thousand runs. During this time he also scored 48 centuries. But do you know that Dravid left India in the middle and started playing for Scotland. While playing for Scotland, he scored a lot of runs. He scored 600 runs in just 11 innings. Now the question is why did Dravid turn to this country? Let's find out.

Actually, in March 2003, Team India played the final of the ODI World Cup. After this, during the off-season, the team coach John Wright advised him to play in the county. During this time, he was in excellent form and was performing brilliantly in Test matches. But he was not able to score runs as expected in ODIs.

So on the advice of the coach, Rahul Dravid joined the Scotland team in the National Cricket League. Then he played a total of 12 matches for Scotland, which included 11 ODIs and a tour game against Pakistan. However, all these matches were county matches, none were international matches.

Rahul Dravid did not have a good start for Scotland. He could score only 25 runs in the first match, while he got out on the second ball against Pakistan without opening his account. But after this he showed his class and scored 120 runs in 97 balls against England's county team Somerset. After this he never looked back.

Dravid scored 600 runs in 11 matches of the ODI tournament at an average of 66.66, which included 2 centuries and 8 half-centuries. After this, his new avatar was seen in ODIs. His performance improved a lot while playing for the Indian team. Let us tell you that the Indians living there helped him to play while living in Scotland. They arranged money for him so that he could play the tournament.