Gautam Gambhir Lauds Rahul Dravid For Turning Down Honorary Doctorate Degree From Bangalore University

Jan 28, 2017 at 2:14 PM

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Gautam Gambhir Lauds Rahul Dravid For Turning Down Honorary Doctorate Degree From Bangalore University

India opener Gautam Gambhir has heaped praise on Rahul Dravid after the latter declined to accept an honorary doctorate to be conferred upon him by the Bangalore University.

The batting legend, who was due to be honoured during the 52nd convocation of the university on January 27, politely refused the recognition and wrote to the university vice-chancellor B Thimmegowda stating he would earn the degree by accomplishing some form of academic research in sports.

Gambhir took to Twitter to praise Dravid’s decision by tweeting:“Proud of Rahul Dravid for declining honorary doctorate of Bangalore University. He says he wants 2 earn it and that is the way it should b.”

Interestingly, Dravid, who played 164 Tests and 344 ODIs for India, had also refused an honorary doctorate from Gulbarga University in 2012.

Gambhir, who is currently out of the Indian team, later said he was never a fan of the honorary recognition and insisted that the country needs real heroes not honorary.

 

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