Happy Birthday Rahul Dravid - The Wall

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The ' Mr.Dependable ' of our Indian Cricket Team, Rahul Dravid, is ranked one of the best ten current Test batsmen in the World. He is the 6th player in history to score 10,000 runs. Beginning his career at age of 12, the turning point in Dravid's career was when he toured to South Africa in 1996-97 where he scored his maiden Test hundred with 148 in the third Test in Johannesburg. In 1999 during the 7th world cup Dravid was the top run scorer. It was under his captaincy that India reached the Finals in the 2003 World Cup. Dravid is the captain and the Icon Player in the Indian Premier League in the Royal Challengers Bangalore team. Like a true Capricorn, Rahul has always been an ambitious individual who has proved his worth on several occasions. Wish one of the best players of our cricket team a very Happy Birthday today!

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[u][b]Personal Records[/b][/u]
[b]Tests[/b]

    * Dravid is the 3rd Indian (6th in World) to score more than 10,000 test runs.
    * Has been involved in the most century partnerships in Test history - 80 (03 Dec 2009).
    * 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.[35]
    * 2nd longest streak of consecutive Tests since debut (93 + 1 in ICC XI) missed 95th test at Ahmedabad due to fever, behind Adam Gilchrist (96).
    * Only player to score a century against every Test playing nation away from home.[37]
    * 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).
    * Dravid is one among the only three batsmen to hit Test centuries in four consecutive innings. The other two are Jack Fingleton and Alan Melville. Dravid achieved this by hitting scores of 115, 148, 217 and 100* in three successive matches against England and one against the West Indies. Only Everton Weekes, with centuries in five consecutive innings, has achieved a longer sequence of consecutive Test hundreds.[38]
    * With scores of 50 or more in 7 consecutive Tests Dravid is behind only to Tendulkar(8) among the Indian batsmen. IVA Richards holds the record for most 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 two 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).
    * Dravid holds the record for the most number of catches by a non-wicketkeeper (188) in the world.
    * 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.[39]

[b]One Dayers[/b]

    * Dravid is the 3rd Indian (6th in World) to score more than 10,000 ODI runs.
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Partnership Records[/b]

    * 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 the 1999 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.

[b]World Cup Records[/b]

    * 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

[b]Captaincy Records[/b]

    * He is tied with Sachin Tendulkar in fourth place for having captained India in the most victorious matches

[b]Other Records[/b]

    * Has the record of not being dismissed on duck for 120 consecutive ODI matches
    * 3rd Highest number of fifties, after Sachin Tendulkar (93) and Inzamam Ul Haq (83).

[Guest rakesh35791]

Rahul Dravid-- you rock you rock
happy bday

[twinkle star]

Happy Birthday Rahul..... you rock you rock he is a great wall of china at the one down position

[mba]

Rahul Dravid.. you rock    #~` #~` happy bday

[Sureedu]

He has supported the team very well. complete team has depended on him at one point of time...

Dravid  you rock you rock

Happy Birthday !!!

[MudhuruMullangi]

Happy B'day.. The Wall you rock you rock you rock you rock

[govardhan]

dravid..the unsung hero of indian cricket...the original team man...mr.dependable.....THE WALL ....the evergreen technical genius..... you rock you rock you rock you rock you rock

[maverick123]

happy bday jammy....

d greatest test batsman ever to walk d earth....dravid you rock you rock you rock you rock you rock

[uravis]

!#~ !#~ blast blast blast ~*^ ~*^ ~*^

[coolbuddy]

happy birthday  DRAVID

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