Rahul Dravid- Some Interesting Facts.

Bowling Career

Rahul Dravid doesn’t bowl much. People have rarely seen Rahul Dravid bowling. It was once against South Africa , back in 2000, when people saw Rahul Dravid bowling. It was a good Rahul Dravid bowling performance, when he took 2 wickets for just 43 runs.


Rahul Dravid Bowling Records In Test Cricket:

Matches: 163
Wickets: 1
Best Bowling in an innings: 1-18
Best Bowling in a match: 1-18
Average: 39.00
Econ: 1.95


Bowling Records In One Day Cricket:

Matches: 339
Wickets: 4
Best Bowling in an innings: 2-43
Best Bowling in a match: 2-43
Average: 42.50
Econ: 5.48

Test Records

Test records
Matches: 164
Innings: 286
Runs: 13288
Avg: 52.31
50s: 63
100s: 36
HS: 270

England Whitewash

In England when nobody was performing. Only Rahul scored three Test Hundreds last year.Showed hopeful disciplined batting. It was the case of England bowler’s against Only Dravid.

Shane Warne

• “Once Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down,” Australian spin legend Shane Warne wrote in his book “Shane Warne’s Century.”

• The top-order batsman, who has anchored India’s national team for the last decade and a half, was only the second Indian after Sachin Tendulkar to have completed 10,000 runs in both Tests (13,288) and one-dayers (10,889).

• Holds the world record of being involved in most century partnerships (87) in test.

• With Sachin Tendulkar holds the world record of most century partnership (20).

• Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar hold the record of highest 100 run partnerships (19) leaving Ponting and Hayden behind (16)

• Highest run scorer in the 4th inning in test (1597).

• Dravid holds the world record for being the first (and only) non-wicketkeeper to take 200 catches in Test cricket         

• Achieved the feat of scoring 3 centuries in a test series twice in England.

• Highest number of runs by a No. 3 batsmen.