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    "excerpt": "New Delhi, July 25 - Former India captain and current Under-19 team coach Rahul Dravid picked batting great Sachin Tendulkar to bat for his life in a video interview recently. "The best guy I've played with was Sachin Tendulkar. In",
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    "editor1": "<p>New Delhi, July 25 - Former India captain and current Under-19 team coach Rahul Dravid picked batting great Sachin Tendulkar to bat for his life in a video interview recently.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n&quot;The best guy I&#39;ve played with was Sachin Tendulkar. In terms of quality and class. So I&#39;d pick Sachin, at his best,&quot; Dravid answered during a video interview with espncricinfo.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nIndia&#39;s &#39;Wall&#39; in the longest format of the game for more than a decade, Dravid&#39;s name often comes to mind when the question of picking a &quot;batsman to bat for your life&quot; pops up.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nBut the 45-year-old who has 13,288 runs in 164 Tests for India chose long time teammate and former India captain Tendulkar.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe recent ICC Hall of Fame inductee, who coached the India U-19 team to a World Cup title earlier this year, was also asked about the funniest sledge he ever received.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nHe picked one delivered by the Australian fielders as he walked out to the crease to join V.V.S.Laxman while following on in the famous 2001 Eden Gardens Test.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"page-break-after:always\"><span style=\"display:none\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>The pair added 376 runs together to help India to one of the greatest victories in Test history.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n&quot;When I walked in at Kolkata, I was reminded that I&#39;d been batting at No.3 in the first Test, and by the time we reached the third innings in Kolkata I was No.6,&quot; he recounted.&nbsp;<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n&quot;So I was told that by the end of the series I&#39;d be No.12, which I thought was really funny.&quot;<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nWhen asked which batsman from the past he would have liked to forge a partnership with, Dravid said: &quot;I would have loved to have partnered Sunil Gavaskar. And hopefully Gavaskar would have gotten out when I was still batting and G.R.Viswanath would have walked in. That would have been cool. They were my childhood heroes growing up.&quot;<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nDravid heaped praised on South Africa quick Kagiso Rabada as one of the bowlers he would love to face from the current generation.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n&quot;If you&#39;re counting Indian bowlers, Bhuvi (Bhuvneshwar Kumar) would be quite a challenge. Facing Bhuvi with the new ball with his ability to get the ball to move away and come back in would be a great challenge,&quot; the batting legend said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/cricket-videos\/video-chris-gayle-took-an-impossible-catch-131\">Video: Chris Gayle took an impossible catch<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>IANS<\/p>\r\n",
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