25 July,2011 08:24 AM IST | | IANS
Rahul Dravid said that scoring a century at Lord's was like turning the clock back to 1996 when he missed a century on debut by just five runs at the hallowed ground.
Rahul Dravid
On successive tours to England, Dravid has been a prolific scorer, but the Lord's century eluded him. When he finally managed to put his name on the Lord's honours boards Saturday with a typically gritty 103 in the first Test against England and also managed to save India following on.
"It was at the back of my mind (missing century on debut). But frankly in the middle I was thinking about saving the follow on. So in a way, the follow on margin helped me to get my mind off it (the nearing hundred).
It was only after we crossed the follow on when it crossed my mind that I was batting in the 90s and I have an opportunity to score a century. It would not have been the end of the world had I not scored a century here.
There are many batsmen who do not have a century at Lord's. I just felt if it happens it is good," Dravid said.
