Former Indian batsman Rahul Dravid has been the most composed and calm cricketer ever seen. However, in the recent ad, fans saw a new version of Dravid.
The CRED ad saw actor Jim Sarbh saying: "When you pay your Credit Cards bills on CRED, you earn CRED coins. Use them to claim cashback and rewards. I know this sounds ridiculous. It is like saying Rahul Dravid has anger issues."
Soon Dravid appears on the screen and is seen shouting at everyone from his car. He is even seen breaking the side-mirror of a car standing next to him with his bat before getting out of the car's rooftop and shouting "Indiranagar ka gunda hun main."
The ad has since gone viral and has also become the meme of 2021. However, Virender Sehwag said that Rahul Dravid had shown his anger in real life as well.
Sehwag recalled the time the 48-year-old was angry with the then-newcomer MS Dhoni. During one of India's tours of Pakistan, Dravid lashed out at Dhoni for getting out to a loose stroke. Sehwag added that the incident had caught Dhoni by surprise.
"I have seen Rahul Dravid get angry. When we were in Pakistan and MS Dhoni had been a newcomer, he played a shot and got caught at point. Dravid was very angry with MS Dhoni. 'That's the way you play? You should finish the game.' I was myself taken aback by the storm of English from Dravid, I didn't understand half of it," Sehwag told on Cricbuzz.
"But when MS Dhoni next came in to bat, I could see he was not hitting shots much. I went and asked him what was wrong. He said he did not want to be scolded by Dravid again. 'I will finish the game quietly and go back,' Dhoni said," he added.
As for Dravid's cricketing career, he remains as one of the greatest Indian batters to have played the game. In 164 Tests, 344 ODIs and one T20I, he managed to score 13288, 10889 and 31 runs respectively.
He had also once hit England's Samit Patel for three sixes in a row during a T20I back in 2011 at Manchester. In the Indian Premier League (IPL), Dravid went on to play 89 matches.
