Rahul Dravid reveals he had to sacrifice his education to make a cricketing career

Rahul Dravid has been one of finest players to have represented India at highest level. He has had a successful cricketing career and is one of few batsmen to have scored over 10,000 runs in both Test as well as One Day International cricket. w, ' Wall' has gone on to say that he had to sacrifice his education in order to focus on cricket which eventually paid off. 

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'It's quite unnerving': Rahul Dravid

"It's quite unnerving for a lot of young players which is why I love working with Under-19 boys or India A who I think are going through same amount of insecurities 'wher I make it or t'."I kind of identify with m, that is something I had experienced myself as a young boy," said Dravid.

Dravid, who went on to become 'Wall of Indian cricket', holds a graduate degree in commerce and was doing MBA when he was picked for India and he had to go through a long phase in first-class cricket.

"I think trying to get into Indian team was one of most challenging phases. I made my first-class debut at of 17 or so... It took me about five years of first-class cricket to play for India. "If I look back, most complicated time for me would be before when I played for India, when you had those risky decisions to take with doubts and insecurities around," he recalled. Dravid said committing to cricket completely was sort of a gamble for him at that point.

When you had choices of going down with a career in something else and you commit to cricket and take that risky decision and go through with it. "You had to sacrifice your education in some ways to take a punt, take a gamble on cricket. It kind of worked out. I never used that degree ever luckily," he said.

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