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chintamani: chint99@yahoo.com: Rahul I am from Karnataka & always loved all the cricketers from our state. I know you will do very well along with Sachin, Ganguly, Ramesh, Laxman & Srinath. Sunil joshi & Azar were ublucky to make it to Aust.. Couple of points: 1. Please anchor the Innings till the last at your own pace 2. Please advice VIJAY B to play & stabalise his position in the team as batsman & utility player in One-dayer.He is being compared to Azar & he has to live up to the expectations. That's it..all the best.. CHINTA USA

Sundaram K: sundu@hotmail.com: Hello Rahul, I am USA based. I am one of your ardent fan, I have been following your exploits right from your first tour to England in 1996. You are great!! there are not 2 opinions about that, keep it up and keep our nation's flag fly high. Sorry, for the big intro. I have a request to make, the other day I was watching Ramesh playing against Q.land game(in the Web) Can you advise him or thro' the coach to play a waiting game ? since both in 1st and 2nd innings at the time VVS was his partner as soon as VVS hit 2 or 3 fours Ramesh grew impatient he tried to follow him by trying to hit some big shots. Please advise him not be rash since as a opener he has tremendous responsibility and especially in a Test match one has to play a waiting Game by holding one end up, You know better so please tell him it is not the run matters in a Test it is the Wicket which matters. Please do that for me since the Test matches are approaching a good opening stand is very vital to break the confidence of the high flying Aussies, Thanks again Rahul. Above all, Guys never lose hope, it is all in mind, believe in yourselves, keep trying I am sure You Guys will certainly will Defeat Australia in Australia. God is great he will help you guys. Good Luck Sundaram K

Kiran Raghavapudi: kraghav@siue.edu: Rahul Dravid, You are the second best batsmen for me. First is Azharuddin, I hope you don't mind that

Subash: subash25@hotmail.com: Hi Rahul, I dunno if u'll read this mail or will have the time to reply to it, but being your ardent fan, I thought I'll send this mail anyway.
I've been in the US since the past three years, working now at Motorola after finishing my masters. And all thru, I've missed the chance of watchingthe Indian cricket team and you in particular play, even though I've seen quite a few matches here and there. This mail is just wishing you guys the very best on a very tough tour. By the way, I too am from Karnataka, Mysore, in fact. My special wishes to all the Kannadigas - You, Srinath, Kumble, Prasad and Bharadwaj. I happen to have met and know Srinath's elder brother, Srinivas, who used to stay with my cousin Srikanth Arakalgud in San Jose before his marriage. If at all you read this mail, please convey my best regards to Babu, a.k.a Srinath. As I said, I don't know if you can, but if you have the time to reply to this mail, I'll be most DELIGHTED !! All the best again. -Subash.

Subash: subash25@hotmail.com: Hi Rahul, I dunno if u'll read this mail or will have the time to reply to it, but being your ardent fan, I thought I'll send this mail anyway.
I've been in the US since the past three years, working now at Motorola after finishing my masters. And all thru, I've missed the chance of watchingthe Indian cricket team and you in particular play, even though I've seen quite a few matches here and there.
This mail is just wishing you guys the very best on a very tough tour. By the way, I too am from Karnataka, Mysore, in fact. My special wishes to all the Kannadigas - You, Srinath, Kumble, Prasad and Bharadwaj. I happen to have met and know Srinath's elder brother, Srinivas, who used to stay with my cousin Srikanth Arakalgud in San Jose before his marriage. If at all you read this mail, please convey my best regards to Babu, a.k.a Srinath. As I said, I don't know if you can, but if you have the time to reply to this mail, I'll be most DELIGHTED !! All the best again. -Subash.

Parthasarathy: scpsarathy@hotmail.com: Hi Dravid, Good luck to put up a good show against Australia. The team banks on you as you are the "only" technically correct batsman in the team besides Tendulkar!!!!!.Let the Aussies be bowled over by your batting. Good luck!!!! Partha

Shyam: shyam_chennai@hotmail.com: Hi, I wish you all the best for a very successful tour and i would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on the fact that if you score 50+ in any innings of a test or in an ODI in Australia you would become the quickest to have reached 50+ in every test playing nation at least once......Amazin work.....keep it up.....

Shyam: shyam_chennai@hotmail.com: Hi, Hope you have a great tour.......

Shyam: shyam_chennai@hotmail.com: I am your batting's greatest fan.....please give me a chance to talk to u once.......

G.Murali Dhar: balu@sasi.com: what will be you target when ever you go to the middle?

Mitesh R PATANGE: miteshp popmail .com: Dear Rahul, My self one of your milliean fans. It has really been a great surprise to me during the last world cup. Here I have a question for you ''WHAT IS THE SECRATE FOR YOUR RAPID INCREASE IN RUN RATE SINCE THE WORLD CUP'' I would like to know the move adopted by you for this change. Mitesh R Patange - miteshp.popmail com

Maitreyee: maitreyeeb@yahoo.com:
Hi Rahul, Hope you have a great time in Australia!!! I am keeping up my promise of writing to you everyday in the hope of getting at least one reply. Ever your admirer, Maitreyee

Tanwir: tanwird@hotmail.com,jawidd@hotmail.com:
Dear Rahul Please tell Sachin and Kapil to bring back Azhar. This is a plea from two of the Die Hardest supporters of Indian cricket. I hope you and Sachin and everyone else makes a few hundreds so that we can win 3-0. Jai Hind, Tanwir and Jawid.

nandini: nandini70@hotmail.com:
Hi! I just wanted to wish you and the team an excellent trip "down Under". Hope you are able to set many new records and repatedly tell all those who doubted your ability "Watch and learn". Nandini

Murali: srimural@emirates.`et.ae:
DearDravid! Goodluck! to you & your teammates! for a successful tour at australia

a. tiwari: a.tiwari@ic.ac.uk: Rahul,
I saw you play aginst kenya in the world cup. You were and are amazing. Keep that going, and go out, with sachin and saurav, and show the rest of the world what the real Indains are made off. Your one of our best cricketers, and hope you keep proving all your critics wrong like you've done time and time again. And have a good go at glen and shanee, your a good bet to put them in their place. Good luck and keep it up.

Satish Hosanagara: hrskumar@att.net:
My dear Rahul, Congratulations on you becoming #1 in the recent cricketer's rating. I wish you all the best in forthcoming cricket. Although here in USA we don't get full coverage of the matches, we enjoy the same good temper of Indian cricket through media. Satish New Jersey, USA

Ravi: vullankir@yahoo.com: Hello Mr Dravid, Aussis are mocking at our team and they say that we are just paper tigers abroad.I wish that this should not be true as we have world class batsmen like you Sachin and Sourav.I wish our team Good Luck and I pray god that we can turn out to be tigers even on ground. Bye Ravi