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In a Test career spanning 16 years, Rahul Dravid has scored runs in Test matches at an average of For India, Rahul Dravid first scored five double centuries in Test cricket, which was later broken by Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag by scoring double centuries. There is another special thing about Rahul Dravid's double centuries, which all came under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly.
Rahul Dravid is the only Indian batsman so far who has scored 4 consecutive centuries in Test cricket. Through the best phase of his career, Rahul Dravid established this record by scoring 4 centuries in the year and till now this record is established in his name only. Rahul Dravid has scored 36 centuries and 63 half-centuries in Test cricket and led India during the period when Ganguly and Chappal had a dispute. Captaining in 25 matches, Rahul Dravid won the series in the West Indies after 35 years, beat England on their soil after 21 years and won the Test match in South Africa when Graeme Smith was the captain.
Dravid and Laxman put on a partnership to bring India back into the match. India scored runs in the first innings, in which Dravid had a memorable innings of runs. Australia could score only runs in the second innings, in which Ajit Agarkar took 6 wickets giving 41 runs and India got the target of runs in the fourth innings. Due to this victory, India finished the series and Rahul Dravid was chosen Man of the Series after scoring runs in the series, in which his average was Watch out here: Dravid's vs Australia.
After the World Cup, many questions were raised on the Indian team. Sourav Ganguly was chosen as the captain who came at such a time and what happened after that was history. Team India going through a transition, Zimbabwe team to tour India for 2-Test matches. Hardly anyone knows, this Zimbabwe team was one of the best teams in their history, with a batsman like Andy Flower.
Dravid has an aggregate of runs to his credit. Later on, Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka emulated him to become the second batsman to score plus runs while batting at number three. Sangakkara has an aggregate of runs. Later on, Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka emulated him to become the second batsman to score 50 fifties while batting at number three.
He is the second Indian batsman to perform such a feat after Sachin Tendulkar, who has scored runs. He has an aggregate of runs. Sachin Tendulkar with runs is the other batsman. He is one of the two batsmen who have scored fifty-plus fifties in away matches.
He has scored 57 fifties. Tendulkar is the other batsman with 65 fifties. He has scored 21 hundreds; Sachin Tendulkar with 29 hundreds is the other batsman to score 20 plus hundreds. Others are — Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag. He has scored 15 hundreds on home soil.
He scored against New Zealand at Ahmedabad in Oct He has taken catches. He has pouched catches in away matches and remains the only fielder to take plus catches in away matches.
He has scored 63 half-centuries. Thus he shares the third place with Border for most half-centuries by a batsman — both of them scoring 63 fifties. Dravid has scored 99 fifties. Both of them have shared partnership runs in innings. They share 20 three-figure partnerships which is a record in itself for the most number of century stands in Test cricket. Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer shared 28 half-century stands.
They are the only pair to add plus runs through half-century stands in Test cricket. His career summary read thus -. This stand is one of the three partnerships of plus runs for the first wicket as of date. For the second wicket, there was another plus run partnership — runs stand between Sehwag and Dravid.
When India came out to bat in their first innings, India lost an early wicket in S Ramesh for just 13 runs. Dravid, who walked in at No. The Das-Dravid duo stitched together a partnership of , before the former was dismissed. Dravid then went on to add for the third wicket with Sachin Tendulkar.
Sachin scored off and the hosts declared at It was Dravid's first double-century in Test cricket. In their second innings, Zimbabwe were all-out for a mere runs. Srinath once again ripped through the batting lineup and picked up five wickets for just 60 runs.
India won the game and took lead in the two-Test series.
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