considering that Australia had scored over 550 runs. But frankly speaking, it was a good batting wicket," he told a news channel The former India skipper said that the sense of bonhomie was what attracted him towards a team sport like cricket.That is one of the biggest joys of team sport," he said when asked how they would celebrate wins, before adding, "what drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship.

The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing. There have been some big celebrations Adelaide was one of them.Reminded about the six that he hit to get to his century in that Adelaide Test, Dravid said, "I never intended to hit a six. it just happened. I didn't thought, it happened instinctively."

And as far his association with VVS Laxman is concerned, Dravid said, "It was fantastic and a privilege to bat with him all these years and share some lovely, wonderful partnerships. VVS was a good laidback South Indian boy I had the opportunity to bat with Sachin (Tendulkar), (Virender) Sehwag, Sourav (Ganguly), (Gautam) Gambhir, Laxman and (Mohammad) Azharuddin... guys who are legends of Indian cricket.

Asked about his ability to bat at any position any don any role, Dravid said, "That's the beauty of team sport as I had said earlier. I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.Dravid, who admires Viswanathan Anand the most outside the cricket fraternity and who described the chess champion's achievements as "staggering", continues to play lower division cricket.

"I have not been training...it's been only a month. I have played a couple of matches over the last two weeks the final of the TNCA league and a second division final. But no practice, no training and no warm-ups.Asked about his decision to participate in lower division leagues after playing at the highest level for so many years, Dravid said, "People like Gundappa Viswanath and Sudhakar Rao continued to play even after retirement. I have played with them (in his initial years) and it was a huge thrill for me to play against them.