Personal Records
Tests
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- With scores of 50 or more in 7 consecutive Tests Dravid is behind only to Tendulkar (8) and Gambhir (11) among Indian batsmen. Gambhir and Viv Richards hold the world record 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 (197) 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.
- Dravid faced highest balls in test cricket, more than Allan Border's previous record of 27002 balls.
One Dayers
- Dravid is the 3rd Indian (6th in World) to score more than 10,000 ODI runs.
Partnership Records
- 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.
World Cup Records
- 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
Captaincy Records
- He is tied with Sachin Tendulkar in fourth place for having captained India in the most victorious matches
Other Records
- Has the record of not being dismissed on duck for 120 consecutive ODI matches
- 2nd Highest number of fifties, after Sachin Tendulkar (93) at 86.
Timeline :
- 1973 - Born 11 January 1973, in Indore
- 1984 - Attended a summer coaching camp at KSCA's Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, where his talents were spotted by former cricketer turned coach Keki Tarapore (There was another Keki Tarapore [Mumbai, deceased] with whom people confuse this gentleman who also passed on.)
- Scores his first century in an unofficial match for his school team St. Joseph's against St. Anthony's.
- Scores a double hundred for the Karnataka schools team which he smashed against Kerala.
- Selected for the under-15 Karnataka team.
- Stops keeping wickets on advice from Gundappa Vishwanath, Roger Binny, Brijesh Patel and coach Keki Tarapore.
- 1985 - Gets recognised in Bangalore as a prodigy after becoming the first ever to score a century in the Cottonian Shield inter school tournament (Juniors) for St. Josephs High School against Baldwin Boys' High School, in the final.
- 1991 - Ranji debut against Maharashtra.
- 1996 - Double century in Ranji finals, vs. Tamil Nadu.
- 1996 - Test debut at Lords, England after Sanjay Manjrekar Navjot Singh Sidhu flew back home after a fracas with captain Azharuddin. Makes 95. was injured and
- 1997 - Maiden Test hundred (148), vs. South Africa, third Test, Johannesburg.
- 1997 - First one day hundred (107), vs. Pakistan, Independence Cup, Chennai.
- 1998 - Dropped from One Day squad for the ODI tournament in Bangladesh.
- 1999 - Hundred in both innings (190,103) against New Zealand in Hamilton.
- 1999 - Makes 461 runs, including three 50s and two 100s in World Cup.
- 1999 - Signs up with Kent for the 2000 English county season.
- 2001 - Scores 180, while V. V. S. Laxman makes 281, in a fifth-wicket stand of 376 as India defeat Australia at Eden Gardens, ending 16 Test-winning streak by Australia.
- 2004 - Career best 270 against Pakistan, at Rawalpindi.
- 2005 - Succeeds Sourav Ganguly as Test and ODI captain.
- 2005 - The Nice Guy Who Finished First by Devendra Prabhudesai, released by coach Greg Chappell.
- 2006 - Scores first century as captain, at Lahore, vs. Pakistan.
- 2006 - Contributed in a remarkable 410 runs partnership with Sehwag at Multan.
- 2006 - Leads India to snatch their first ever test victory on South African Soil.
- 2007 - Leads India in the 2007 Cricket World Cup, held in West Indies.
- 2007 - After India's tour of England, resigns from Indian captaincy.
- 2007 - Dropped from the Indian ODI Squad after poor series against Australia.
- 2008 - Reached the landmark of 10000 Test runs, in the first Test of the series against South Africa in Chennai on 29 March
- 2009 - Reached the catching record for a fielder in test cricket with 182 catches, in the third test against New Zealand in Wellington on 6 April.
Awards
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