The former captain of Team India and the most trusted batsman of his time, Rahul Dravid, is a well-known name. He has always been in discussions because of his captaincy, and he is celebrating his 49 birthday today. Rahul Dravid played an important role for Team India for16 years from the beginning of his career. In his era, when team India was in distress, the team, along with the fellows, remembered Rahul Dravid as a firefighter. With his superb discipline, Dravid always appeared to stand as a wall.
On the occasion of Rahul Dravid's birthday today, we will tell you about some of his records:
1. Dravid is the third Indian (sixth in the world) to have scored over 10,000 Test runs.
2. He has scored 23% of the total runs India has scored in 21 Test matches won under Sourav Ganguly's captaincy (102) with a batting average of 84. This is the highest percentage of any batsman's contribution to the history of Test cricket in matches won under the captaincy of the same captain, where the captain has won more than 20 Tests.
3. He is the only player to have scored a century against every nation playing a Test outside the country.
4. He has been involved in the highest partnership for any wicket for India outside the country, the partnership was formed with Virender Sehwag against Pakistan in Lahore in 2006, scoring 410 runs in the partnership.
5. Dravid is one of the three batsmen who scored four consecutive fairy-test centuries.
6. In 7 consecutive Tests, Dravid scored 50 or more, in that sense, he is only behind Sachin Tendulkar (8) among Indian batsmen.
7. He has played 150 innings of 94 tests at number 3. He has scored more than 8000 runs in this situation. Both these facts are recorded as world records.
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