Rahul Dravid is a name well known in the cricketing world, not only because of the kind of player he is, but also the kind of ethics and principles that he brings to a cricket field. Dravid was probably the last out of a few cricketers who still made the game look like a gentleman's game. Cricket at the end of the day is meant to be a gentlemen's game.

A career spanning more than 16 years, Rahul Dravid has ruled the world but not for once the world had seen him lose his cool or get into a ugly spat with his fellow cricketers. He believed in carrying himself in a certain manner and he stuck to it like a soldier with his gun in a battle-field.

Labelled as a Test match player, he came back into the one-day fold and to come back and score more than 10,000 runs is a collossal achievement which only few people have achieved so far. Dravid was a complete package not only as a cricketer but also as a leader and a person who always wanted Indian cricket to grow in leaps and bounds and was a great team man.

Dravid's biggest asset as a player was the fact that he was a dependable non-striker, a guy one can rely on even when the chips are down, keeping in mind the fact that not everybody wants to play second fiddle in life or in sports. Dravid always did that and knew his limitations with which he had built a fortress known as 'The Wall'.

There were a bunch of extra-ordinary players, immensely gifted and talented during his era who made the game look very easy but where Dravid stood out was to make a common man believe that cricket is just not about talent, probably a bit more than that. A man who maximised his talent with limited abilities and followed the text book like a good student.

Youngsters can take a leaf out of Dravid's book and learn a thing or two about the game along with the mental aspect of the game. Even today when Dravid takes the field for Rajasthan Royals one can see the same kind of aggression in his face as it was all through out his career. He might not have scored as many runs as one would expect him to do but that does not take away the kind of professionalism he has shown all throughout the tournament.

Aggression is not always abusing the opponent but what you see in Rahul Dravid's eyes when he takes the field, something which the younsters have forgotton these days which has turned the game of gentlemens into not so gentlemen like.