Was this player really scared of Ganguly and Dravid's debut?
Was this player really scared of Ganguly and Dravid's debut?
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Both Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid made their debut at the historic ground at Lord's in 1996. Both these players recorded their names in the history of Indian cricket with golden letters. Now former England cricket team veteran player Domenic Cork has revealed that he had judged both of his abilities from his debut.

Former captain of the Indian cricket team, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid are not only in the list of great captains of India, but both of them ruled the world cricket with their bat. Both Ganguly and Dravid made their Test cricket debut in 1996 from the historic grounds of Lord's. Where Ganguly had scored a century and Dravid scored a 95-run inning. Recalling his debut match, former England all-rounder player Domenic Cork said, 'We had to face him even before he bowled at Lord's. Both players were part of India A and were part of England A team. Both batsmen had bowled brilliantly for India A.

Rahul Dravid comes in second with 13265 runs after Sachin Tendulkar in terms of scoring the most runs in Test cricket for India and Sourav Ganguly is ranked seventh with 7212 runs. Now the former veteran further praised both the players, saying, 'Both Ganguly and Dravid were super-timers of the ball. In that match, the pair took over soon after Team India faltered and scored 429 runs in response to England's first innings of 344 runs. After this, England declared their second innings by scoring 278 runs for 9 wickets and the match was a draw.

Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, speaking with their bats in ODIs, got a chance to make their debut in England tour in 1996. Performed brilliantly in the debut match played at the historic ground of Lord's. Ganguly scored 131 runs in 301 balls in his debut match and became the first player for India to score a century in Test debut, apart from this, Rahul Dravid, known as The Wall, scored 95 runs from 267 balls. The match may have ended on a draw but on that day the Indian cricket team got 2 stars.

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