Rahul Dravid's big fear: Forgetting how to bat

Rahul Dravid was asked this question by a bunch of enthusiastic students from Riverside School, Ahmedabad recently. Read on for the conversation:

What makes Indian cricket's Mr Unflappable, Rahul Dravid, nervous?

He smiled and said, "Would it be okay if I say it's my wife?" Squeals of laughter from 500-plus people filled the auditorium.

Dravid was a guest at the annual gathering of Design For Change (DFC), a notfor-profit project which hones the skills of children through creative expression, at the behest of friend and former world billiards champ Geet Sethi.

Sethi's wife Kiran is the founder of DFC. "I'm just kidding," Dravid added. He turned serious again, as if ready to face a Shoaib Akhtar bouncer.

The next question was, "What's your biggest fear?"

"I sleep in the night and so often dream I have forgotten how to bat," he said. "And when I wake up the next morning, I realise that the dream was actually true." Dravid's self-deprecation won the crowd over. "What is one thing unique about you?" he was asked.

Dravid thought for a long 45 seconds and said, "Gosh, I can bat well, but so can so many others. Which basically means, I actually have nothing unique in me."

"What would you not like to be remembered as?" asked a curious DFC participant.

"I would surely not want to be remembered as the Rahul Dravid who declared the innings when Sachin Tendulkar was on 194. That is the only talked about issue related to me from the time Tendulkar has released his book," Dravid replied with a wide smile.