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[b]Lord's, June 22, 1996[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Rahul Dravid made his Test debut at Lord's and impressed immediately with a stroke-filled 95. His love affair with England would continue till his last series, in 2011[/font][/color]

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[b]Hamilton, January 4, 1999[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: In 1999, Dravid became only the third India batsman to score centuries in each innings of a Test, after Vijay Hazare and Sunil Gavaskar, when he scored 190 and 103 not out in Hamilton. Since then the only Indian to repeat the feat is Dravid himself, in 2005[/font][/color]

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[b]Mumbai, March 1, 2001[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: In the first Test of Australia's 2000-01 tour of India, Michael Slater claimed to have caught Dravid at square leg but replays suggested the ball may have bounced. Dravid stood his ground, drawing the wrath of Slater, who thought he should take the fielder's word that the catch was clean[/font][/color]

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[b]Kolkata, March 14, 2001[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: At Eden Gardens, India were following on against Australia, facing a 274-run first-innings deficit. Dravid scored 180 and had a 376-run partnership with VVS Laxman that saw the pair bat through the fourth day of the Test[/font][/color]

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[color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]Laxman and Dravid's epic stand led to one of India's most famous wins[/font][/color]

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[b]Headingley, August 23, 2002[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: In difficult conditions, Dravid saw off the new ball in an innings that has been lauded as one of his best. Though Sachin Tendulkar scored more runs in the game, Dravid was named Man of the Match for his 148[/font][/color]

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[color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]The knock helped India win a Test in England after 16 years[/font][/color]

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[b]The Oval, September 8, 2002[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Dravid's third century of the series was a double, and ensured India drew the fourth Test, and thus the series. His 217 was the third of four hundreds in consecutive innings, a record for an India batsman[/font][/color]

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[b]Adelaide, December 13, 2003[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Responding to Australia's huge first-innings score, Dravid scored his first century down under and converted it into a double[/font][/color]

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[color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,] he and Laxman added 303 runs to rescue India from 85 for 4[/font][/color]

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[color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]Chasing 230 in the final innings, Dravid fought hard once again ...[/font][/color]

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[color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,] and delivered India a six-wicket victory and a 1-0 lead in the series in Australia.[/font][/color]

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[b]Multan, April 1, 2004[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Dravid made the controversial decision to declare in Multan in 2004, leaving Sachin Tendulkar stranded on 194, to push for a win. India eventually won their first Test in Pakistan, by an innings and 52 runs[/font][/color]

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[b]Rawalpindi, April 15, 2004[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Dravid produced his career-best in Rawalpindi in 2004, his 270 leading India to 600 in the first innings, after which they eventually won by an innings and 131 runs[/font][/color]

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[color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]India won the series 2-1, their first series victory in Pakistan[/font][/color]

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[b]London, September 7, 2004[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Dravid was named the ICC Test player of the year and player of the year in September 2004[/font][/color]

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[b]Nagpur, October 29, 2004[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Ganguly withdrew from the third Test against Australia and Dravid stood in as captain on a greentop. He was hit by a Michael Kasprowicz bouncer during India's 342-run defeat[/font][/color]

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[b]Kolkata , March 19, 2005[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Dravid's twin centuries against Pakistan in Kolkata 2005 gave India a 195-run victory and the series lead.[/font][/color]

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[b]Harare, September 2005[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: The spat between Ganguly and Greg Chappell, which blew up during the tour of Zimbabwe in 2005, led to Dravid's appointment as India captain ahead of the home series against Sri Lanka in December[/font][/color]

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[b]Sydney, October 14, 2005[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Dravid was part of the World XI that took on Australia in the ICC's Supertest experiment in October 2005[/font][/color]

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[b]Lahore, January 16, 2006[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Dravid and Virender Sehwag set the record for the highest opening partnership in Pakistan - 410 in Lahore in 2006. Dravid's unbeaten century was his first as captain[/font][/color]

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[b]Kingston, July 1, 2006[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Dravid passed 9000 Test runs during his twin half-centuries on a difficult Sabina Park pitch, setting up India's 49-run win in the final Test. India's 1-0 series victory was their first in the Caribbean for 36 years[/font][/color]

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[b]Nottingham, July 31, 2007[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Dravid and Ganguly walk off Trent Bridge after completing a seven-wicket victory in July 2007. Under Dravid's captaincy, India maintained their 1-0 lead to win a series in England for the first time since 1986. He resigned the leadership after the tour.[/font][/color]

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[b]Perth, January 16, 2008[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: India win by 72 runs. In the first innings of that Test, Dravid top-scored with 93 in India's total of 330. They eventually took a decisive lead of 118.[/font][/color]

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[b]Mohali, December 19, 2008[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: 2008 was a poor year for Dravid, but in his final innings of the year, he ended a string of eight failures with a hard fought 136 against England in Mohali.[/font][/color]

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[b]Wellington, April 6, 2009[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Dravid broke the record for most catches in Tests, going past Mark Waugh's 181, when he caught Tim McIntosh during the third Test of the 2009 tour of New Zealand. India won the series and Dravid would later become the only player to complete 200 Test catches[/font][/color]

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[b]Kingston, June 22, 2011[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Dravid hits the 18th of his 21 sixes in Test cricket, at Sabina Park in June 2011. His 112 out of a total of 252 helped set a target that was beyond West Indies. That performance came after he had scored only 120 runs in six innings in South Africa. It helped India win the series 1-0 in the Caribbean.[/font][/color]

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[b]Lord's, July 23, 2011[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: In his first Test at Lord's, in 1996, Dravid had made 95. In his last Test there, in 2011, he made his first century at the home of cricket.[/font][/color]

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[b]Nottingham, July 30, 2011[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: In the second Test on that tour of England, Dravid's century at Trent Bridge, while opening the innings, gave India the first-innings lead. They went on to lose by 319 runs, though.[/font][/color]

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[b]The Oval, August 21, 2011[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: At The Oval, with the series lost and the rest of India's batsmen continuing to flounder against swing and seam, Dravid's resistance continued. He made his third century of the tour, an unbeaten 146 as opener, and was only the third Indian to carry his bat. He finished India's 0-4 defeat with 461 runs at an average of 76.[/font][/color]
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[b]Adelaide, January28, 2012[/b][color=#000000][font=Tahoma, Geneva, Arial,]: Dravid played his last Test at Adelaide Oval, in January 2012. He was part of an Indian side blanked 4-0, amid reports of a severe rift between MS Dhoni and Sehwag causing factions among the players. It was not how the consummate team-man would have wished to end his career.[/font][/color]