Reunion of Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid: Fire and ice as Indian cricket seeks new turn

India vs New Zealand: Nearly 10 years after Rahul Dravid's retirement as an international cricketer, he is back in the Indian dressing-room as coach. The young fiery batsman he had seen shine in the twilight of his career, is now the world's most talked-about captain. How will the Kohli-Dravid era work?

On September 16, 2011, when Rahul Dravid fell to Graeme Swann for 69 and started the walk back to the pavilion for the last time in ODIs, a young man at the other end was batting on 107. While an illustrious career came to an end amid a rousing applause, another one was taking wings. Virat Kohli, full of youthful exuberance, had just hit his 6th ODI hundred and was heralded as one of the players to watch out for the future.

On January 24, 2012, Rahul Dravid walked in to play his last Test match for India against Australia. It was a horror series - India would go on to be blanked 4-0 but even as Rahul Dravid completed his services to Indian cricket after 16 years and 164 Tests, Virat Kohli, the unapologetic and brash boy from Delhi, decided it was time to announce his intent in the oldest format of the game - against a bowling attack studded with Ryan Harris, Peter Siddle, Ben Hilfenhaus and Nathan Lyon, Kohli smashed 116, his maiden hundred in Test cricket.