Rahul Dravidโs Son: Anvay Dravid, the younger son of former Indian veteran cricketer and coach Rahul Dravid, has managed to grab headlines by scoring an unbeaten century in the Vijay Merchant Trophy 2024-25. Let us tell you that Anvay has done this feat on behalf of the Karnataka Under-16 team against Punjab.
Anvay Dravid Scores Century in Vijay Merchant Trophy
Talking about the match, Punjab declared the innings at 742/9. Gursimran Singh played an important role in taking Punjab to this target, they played a brilliant innings of 230 runs with the help of 32 boundaries in 426 balls. Apart from this, 6 more players of Punjab played half-century innings.
Chasing this mountain-like target, Anvay came out to bat at number 4 for the Karnataka team. On one side the wickets were falling, but Anvay held one end and made a valuable partnership of 95 runs in 202 balls with Dhyan M Hiremath for the 7th wicket. In the match, Anvay played an innings of 110* runs with the help of 12 boundaries in 234 balls and remained unbeaten.
In the end, Karnataka scored 280/7 and the match ended in a draw. But due to the lead taken by Punjab, it has qualified for the next round of the tournament. Also, before this, 16-year-old Anvay played an unbeaten innings of 100 runs in 153 balls in a group stage match against Jharkhand.
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Anvayโs Stellar Performance in the Tournament
Anvay Dravid was the highest run scorer for Karnataka in the entire tournament. In the entire tournament, Anvay scored a total of 459 runs with the help of 2 centuries and three half-centuries. Seeing these figures of Anvay in junior cricket, father Rahul would be feeling proud.
While Anvay Dravid is making headlines in junior cricket, Rahul Dravidโs elder son Samit Dravid made his debut in the Senior Menโs T20 tournament in Karnatakaโs Maharaja Trophy last year. In this tournament, the batting all-rounder scored a total of 82 runs at a strike rate of 114 in 7 matches played for Mysore Warriors.
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