Dravid was born in aMaharashtrian
Deshastha Brahmin
family in Indore
,Madhya Pradesh
.[13]
His family later moved to Bangalore
,Karnataka
, where he was raised.[14]
Dravid's father worked for a company that makes jams and preserves, giving rise to the later nickname"Jammy". His mother, Pushpa, was a professor of Architecture
at the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering
(UVCE), Bangalore.[15]
He has a younger brother, Vijay. Dravid did his schooling from St. Joseph's Boys High School
, Bangalore and earned a degree in commerce from St. Joseph's College of Commerce
, Bangalore.
Dravid started playing cricket at the age of 12, and representedKarnataka
at the under-15, the under-17 and the under-19 levels.[16]
Former cricketer Keki Tarapore
first noticed Dravid's talent while coaching at a summer camp in theChinnaswamy Stadium
.[17]
Dravid scored a century for his school team. He also played aswicket-keeper
, but later stopped keeping wicket on the advice of former Test players Gundappa Vishwanath
, Roger Binny
,Brijesh Patel
and Tarapore.
Dravid made his Ranji Trophy
debut in February 1991, while he was still attending college. Playing alongside future Indian teammates Anil Kumble
andJavagal Srinath
againstMaharashtra
in Pune
, he scored 82 runs in the match, which ended in a draw.[18]
His first full season was in 1991–92, when he scored two centuries and finished up with 380 runs at an average of 63.3,[19]
getting selected for the South Zone cricket team
in the Duleep Trophy
.[20]
On 4 May 2003 he married Vijeta Pendharkar, a surgeon
from Nagpur
.[21]
They have two children: Samit, born in 2005,[22]
and Anvay, born in 2009.[23]
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