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Rahul Dravid
Sunday 1 April 2012
Wednesday 14 March 2012
World Records By Rahul
TEST CRICKET
*Dravid is the 2nd cricketer to score more than 13,000 test runs.
*Has been involved in the most century partnerships in Test history - 88.
*Scored nearly 23% of the total runs put up by India (with a batting average of 102.84) in the 21 Test matches won under Ganguly's captaincy. This is the highest percentage contribution by any batsman in Test cricket history in matches won under a single captain where the captain has won more than 20 Tests.
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*Only player to score a century against every Test playing nation away from home.
*Involved in highest partnership made away from home for any wicket for India with vice captain Virender Sehwag of 410 runs vs Pakistan at Lahore in 2006 (also, the highest partnership between a captain and the vice captain). Only Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad have scored more runs in a partnership for India, 413 vs New Zealand in Chennai (6-11 Jan 1956).
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*With scores of 50 or more in 7 consecutive Tests Dravid is behind only to Tendulkar (8) and Gambhir (11) among Indian batsmen. Gambhir and Viv Richards hold the world record with 11.
*He is currently 2nd among batsmen who have scored most away runs in Tests (6430 as of April 2009). Only Sachin Tendulkar (7165) has scored more away Test runs.
*He has played 150 innings of 94 tests at number 3. He has scored more than 8000 runs at this position. Both feats are world records.
*2nd Indian batsman to score twin hundreds in a Test twice, after Sunil Gavaskar. Gavaskar and Ponting are the only batsmen to score twin hundreds in a Test thrice.
*One of only three Indians to score 5 double hundreds.(each bigger than the previous 200* vs Zimbabwe, 217 vs England, 222 vs New Zealand, 233 vs Australia, 270 vs Pakistan). In fact, along with Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar, he is one of only three Indians to score 190+ on seven occasions.
*Partnering with Tendulkar, has scored more runs than any other pair, excluding opening pairs. They are the 3rd best in terms of total number of partnership runs scored by a pair in test cricket.
*Dravid has faced highest number of deliveries in test cricket, more than Allan Border's previous record of 27002 deliveries.
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*Rahul Dravid is the third batsman in the world after compatriot Sachin Tendulkar and Australia's Ricky Ponting to reach the 12000-run milestone in test cricket.
*Has only missed 3 test matches since joining Indian test squad.
*On 21 August 2011 while playing against England ,he became first batsmen in the history of Test Cricket to face 30,000 balls. He has faced 31258 deliveries in Test cricket, more than any other batsman.
*Has twice scored hundreds in each innings of a Test – v New Zealand at Hamilton in 1998-99 and v Pakistan at Calcutta in 2004-05. He’s only the second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to have performed the feat of scoring twin-tons more than once.
*The only player after Don Bradman to score double-centuries in three successive series by scoring 222 vs New Zealand at Ahmedabad, 2003-04; 233 vs. Australia at Adelaide, 2003-04 and 270 vs. Pakistan at Rawalpindi, 2003-04.
*Batted for 173 consecutive innings in both Tests and ODIs without a duck between 2000 and 2004 - longest sequence for any batsman without duck.
*The only Indian to score four Test centuries on the roll (115, 148, 217 and 100*) first three against England and the last against West Indies between August and October 2002.
ONE DAY CRICKET
- Dravid is the 3rd Indian (6th in World) to score more than 10,000 ODI runs.
- Only batsman to feature in TWO triple-hundred partnerships in ODIs.
- A record 120 consecutive innings without a duck in ODIs between 1999 and 2004.
Partnership Records
- The only batsman to have been involved in two ODI partnerships exceeding 300 runs.
- First batsman to be involved in a 300 run partnership in a Cricket World Cup along with Sourav Ganguly in the1999 World Cup match against Sri Lanka at Taunton.
- Involved in all three highest 4th wicket partnerships against South Africa, two with Yuvraj Singh.
- Involved in the highest partnership in the history of ODI cricket with a 331 run partnership along with Sachin Tendulkar vs New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999–2000.
- Involved in highest 3rd wicket partnership in ODI history with Sachin Tendulkar – 237 runs against Kenya in 1999.
Highest partnership runs in a career Partners Span Inns NO Runs High Ave 100 50 R Dravid, SR Tendulkar (India) 1996-2012 143 6 6920 249 50.51 20 29 CG Greenidge, DL Haynes (WI) 1978-1991 148 11 6482 298 47.31 16 26 ML Hayden, JL Langer (Aus) 1997-2007 122 4 6081 255 51.53 14 28 DPMD Jayawardene, KC Sangakkara (SL) 2000-2012 95 3 5417 624 58.88 14 23 ML Hayden, RT Ponting (Aus) 2001-2009 76 5 4765 272 67.11 16 22 AN Cook, AJ Strauss (Eng) 2006-2012 117 2 4752 229 41.32 13 18 MS Atapattu, ST Jayasuriya (SL) 1997-2007 122 7 4533 335 39.41 9 24 SC Ganguly, SR Tendulkar (India) 1996-2008 71 3 4173 281 61.36 12 16 R Dravid, VVS Laxman (India) 1996-2012 86 7 4065 376 51.45 12 14 G Gambhir, V Sehwag (India) 2004-2012 78 3 3979 233 53.05 10 23
World Cup Records
- He was the leading run scorer in the 1999 World Cup with 461 runs.
- Has the 2nd highest score (145) by a wicketkeeper in a World Cup behind AC Gilchrist(149).
- He was only the second wicketkeeper-batsman after Zimbabwean Dave Houghton to score an ODI hundred in the World Cup.
- He was the second batsman after Mark Waugh to score back-to-back hundreds in the World Cup
Captaincy Records
- He is tied with Sachin Tendulkar in fourth place for having captained India in the most victorious matches
Other Records
- Has the record of not being dismissed on duck for 120 consecutive ODI matches
- 3rd Highest number of fifties, after India's Sachin Tendulkar (93) and Pakistan's Inzamam-ul-Haq (83) at 82.
CAPTAINCY RECORDS
- Rahul Dravid is only one of two Indians to be the top scorer in a World Cup (the other is Sachin Tendulkar). He amassed 461 runs in the 1999 World Cup, the first World Cup he played.
- Rahul Dravid led India to a historic Test series win, against the West Indies in their home soil in 2006. Since 1971, India had never won a Test series in the West Indies. This was also their first prominent series win outside the Indian subcontinent (barring the win against Zimbabwe in 2005) since 1986.
- Under Dravid's captaincy the Indian team tied the previous record of most consecutive One-Day International wins for an Indian team thus equalling the record run that the Indian team had achieved under Sourav Ganguly in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa. This was later beaten by Mahendra Singh Dhoni who led Indian team to 9 consecutive victories in 2008–2009.
- During his captaincy the Indian team broke the record for most consecutive won matches in One-Day Internationals while batting second (previously held by the West Indies). For this 17 match run, Dravid was the captain for 15 matches and Sourav Ganguly was the captain for the other two. This streak was broken on 20 May 2006, when India lost to the West Indies by one run, at Sabina Park, Jamaica.
- Rahul Dravid was the first captain to lead India to a Test match victory against South Africa on South African soil.
- He became only the third captain from India to win a Test series in England. The other two captains being Kapil Dev (1986) and Ajit Wadekar (1971).
Tuesday 13 March 2012
How Well Do You Know Rahul Dravid?
Full name Rahul Sharad Dravid
Born January 11, 1973, Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Current age 39 years
Major teams India, Scotland, Asia XI, ICC World XI,Karnataka, Kent, Marylebone Cricket Club, Rajasthan Royals,Royal Challengers Bangalore
Nickname The Wall, Mr. Dependable, Jammy
Playing role Top-order batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Fielding position Occasional wicket-keeper, slip fielder
Education St. Joseph's Boys' High School
Batting and fielding averages
Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tests | 164 | 286 | 32 | 13288 | 270 | 52.31 | 31258 | 42.51 | 36 | 63 | 1654 | 21 | 210 | 0 |
ODIs | 344 | 318 | 40 | 10889 | 153 | 39.16 | 15284 | 71.24 | 12 | 83 | 950 | 42 | 196 | 14 |
T20Is | 1 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 31 | 31.00 | 21 | 147.61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
First-class | 298 | 497 | 67 | 23794 | 270 | 55.33 | 68 | 117 | 353 | 1 | ||||
List A | 449 | 416 | 55 | 15271 | 153 | 42.30 | 21 | 112 | 233 | 17 | ||||
Twenty20 | 69 | 62 | 6 | 1605 | 75* | 28.66 | 1369 | 117.23 | 0 | 7 | 178 | 25 | 14 | 0 |
Bowling averages
Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tests | 164 | 5 | 120 | 39 | 1 | 1/18 | 1/18 | 39.00 | 1.95 | 120.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
ODIs | 344 | 8 | 186 | 170 | 4 | 2/43 | 2/43 | 42.50 | 5.48 | 46.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
T20Is | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
First-class | 298 | 617 | 273 | 5 | 2/16 | 54.60 | 2.65 | 123.4 | 0 | 0 | |||
List A | 449 | 477 | 421 | 4 | 2/43 | 2/43 | 105.25 | 5.29 | 119.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Twenty20 | 69 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
First-class debut | 1990/91 |
Last First-class | Australia v India at Adelaide, Jan 24-28, 2012 scorecard |
List A debut | 1992/93 |
Last List A | England v India at Cardiff, Sep 16, 2011 scorecard |
Twenty20 debut | Karnataka v Gujarat at Mumbai (BS), Apr 17, 2007 scorecard |
Last Twenty20 | England v India at Manchester, Aug 31, 2011 scorecard |
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ODI debut | India v Sri Lanka at Singapore, Apr 3, 1996 scorecard |
Last ODI | England v India at Cardiff, Sep 16, 2011 scorecard |
Only T20I | England v India at Manchester, Aug 31, 2011 scorecard |
Profile
Rahul Dravid was probably one of the last classical Test match batsmen. His progress into the national side may have been steady and methodical rather than meteoric, but once there, Dravid established himself at the vanguard of a new, defiant generation that were no longer easybeats away from home. Armed with an orthodox technique drilled into him by Keki Tarapore, he became the cement that held the foundations firm while the flair players expressed themselves. Yet, for a man quickly stereotyped as one-paced and one-dimensional, he too could stroke the ball around when the mood struck him.
Never a natural athlete, he compensated with sheer hard work and powers of concentration that were almost yogic. At Adelaide in 2003, when India won a Test in Australia for the first time in a generation, he batted 835 minutes over two innings. A few months later, he was at the crease more than 12 hours for the 270 that clinched India's first series win in Pakistan. Initially seen as a liability in the one-day arena, he retooled his game over the years to become an adept middle-order finisher. The heaves and swipes didn't come naturally, but by the time the selectors eased him aside in early 2008, he had more than 10,000 runs to his name in the 50-over game. There had also been a lengthy phase where he donned the wicketkeeping gloves, helping the team to find a balance that was crucial in the run to the World Cup final in 2003.
However, it's his Test exploits that he will be most remembered for. After impressing in a Lord's debut where he was eclipsed by Sourav Ganguly, Dravid's breakthrough innings arrived at the Wanderers a few months later, against a South African attack accustomed to bullying visitors. A brief slump followed, but he emerged from that with perhaps one of the most famous supporting acts of all, to VVS Laxman in an Eden Gardens Test that rejuvenated Indian cricket. The half decade that followed was a golden one with the bat, as tours of England and Australia realised more than 600 runs.
A two-year stint as captain, following Ganguly's axing, was less successful, though he did lead the side to series victories in England and the West Indies for the first time in a generation. Just when it seemed his best was behind him, Dravid showed his class once again on the tour to England in 2011. In a series in which India were completely outplayed and none of their other batsmen scored more than 275 runs in the Tests, Dravid amassed 461, including three hundreds, two of them when opening the innings against a high-quality pace attack. However, that was followed by a poor series in Australia, which turned out to be his last, as he announced his retirement soon after returning to India.
Dravid's immense levels of concentration also came in handy when he was standing in the slips. Most of his catches were taken in that cordon as he overtook Mark Waugh to become the most successful slip catcher in history.
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