NEW DELHI: From going through essentially the most balls in Check cricket to being the fourth-highest run-scorer within the historical past of the format, India batting nice Rahul Dravid holds quite a few information beneath his belt.
Sometimes called “The Wall” of Indian cricket, Dravid was recognized for his distinctive method, focus, and talent to anchor the innings throughout his enjoying days.
Dravid retired from worldwide cricket in 2012 after amassing 13288 runs from 270 Checks that got here at a mean of 52.31.
Dravid’s tally of 36 Check lots of is second solely to Sachin Tendulkar (51) in terms of variety of lots of by an Indian batsman.
However Dravid turned the primary batsman to attain Check centuries in all ten Check-playing nations, a feat he achieved within the second Check of the India-Bangladesh sequence in 2004 at Chattogram.
Then opener Gautam Gambhir, who succeeded Dravid as Crew India head coach, struck his first Check ton, as Dravid hit his 18th Check hundred. Dravid reached his 50 in 95 balls and 100 in 196 balls.
The 259-run stand between Dravid (160) and Gambhir (139) was India’s highest second-wicket partnership overseas. Gambhir introduced up his 50 off 60 balls, and scored his subsequent 50 off 71 deliveries. His fast innings allowed Dravid the time to bat himself in.
Then India captain Sourav Ganguly too contributed with 88 as India piled up 540 runs.
Bangladesh batsman Mohammad Ashraful hit an excellent, unbeaten 158, however couldn’t save his group both from a follow-on or from an innings defeat.
Irfan Pathan registered his third five-wicket haul of the sequence within the Bangladesh second innings, wrapping up the match by an innings and 83 runs and the sequence on Day four of the Check.
India and Bangladesh are set to play the primary Check of a two-match sequence in Chennai from September 19.
Sometimes called “The Wall” of Indian cricket, Dravid was recognized for his distinctive method, focus, and talent to anchor the innings throughout his enjoying days.
Dravid retired from worldwide cricket in 2012 after amassing 13288 runs from 270 Checks that got here at a mean of 52.31.
Dravid’s tally of 36 Check lots of is second solely to Sachin Tendulkar (51) in terms of variety of lots of by an Indian batsman.
However Dravid turned the primary batsman to attain Check centuries in all ten Check-playing nations, a feat he achieved within the second Check of the India-Bangladesh sequence in 2004 at Chattogram.
Then opener Gautam Gambhir, who succeeded Dravid as Crew India head coach, struck his first Check ton, as Dravid hit his 18th Check hundred. Dravid reached his 50 in 95 balls and 100 in 196 balls.
The 259-run stand between Dravid (160) and Gambhir (139) was India’s highest second-wicket partnership overseas. Gambhir introduced up his 50 off 60 balls, and scored his subsequent 50 off 71 deliveries. His fast innings allowed Dravid the time to bat himself in.
Then India captain Sourav Ganguly too contributed with 88 as India piled up 540 runs.
Bangladesh batsman Mohammad Ashraful hit an excellent, unbeaten 158, however couldn’t save his group both from a follow-on or from an innings defeat.
Irfan Pathan registered his third five-wicket haul of the sequence within the Bangladesh second innings, wrapping up the match by an innings and 83 runs and the sequence on Day four of the Check.
India and Bangladesh are set to play the primary Check of a two-match sequence in Chennai from September 19.
