Rd Facts Of The Day

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Rahul Dravid is the only batsman to be involved in 700 partnerships...no other batsman has even 650

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He is involved in 88 century partnerships in tests...the highest for any batsman

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He has 10 or more century stands with four partners...no one else managed it with even three partners

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When RD was at the crease, the team scored 32,039 runs out of the total 89,668 runs scored by the entire team. It means 35.6% of the total runs were scored with RD at the crease....the next highest for any batsman is Jacques Kallis with 32.6% and Sachin with 29.9%

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India won 15 tests abroad during RD's career (excluding Zim and bangla)...and in those matches he scored 1577 runs at 65.7 average

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He scored century in both innings of a test twice. He is the third Indian to do that along with gavaskar and Vijay Hazare

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He played 123 balls per dismissal and is only second to Kallis with 125 balls per dismissal

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Dada is called as the best captain for India with 21 test victories. But in these 21 victories RD played a major part by scoring 2571 runs at a record avergae of 102.84 which includes 9 centuires (three 200s)

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From 1996-2012 RD scored highest runs for the team in test matches

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arupu posts mama...............

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As always

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All RD fans.....

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All RD fans.....
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