After 21....

India won their frist series on English soil after 21 years.India won the 3-test series 1-0.The frist Test was drawn with the rain helping india salvage a draw and third Test also ending similarly with England managing to hold on. This was the frist indian victory against England in England after they won 2-0 in 1986..

Rahul Dravid's wedding

Rahul Dravid on Sunday May 4, 2003 married Vijeta Pendharkar, a doctor from Nagpur. The marriage was strictly a private affair. The couple obliged photographers by coming to the reception of Taj West End Hotel, where the dinner was being held, for ten minutes.

One Day International Cricket Records...

OID Records...

1)The only batsman to have been involved in two ODI partnerships exceeding 300 runs.

2) 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.

3)Involved in all three highest 4th wicket partnerships against South Africa, two with Yuvraj Singh.

4)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.

5)Has the record of not being dismissed on duck for 120 consecutive ODI matches

World Cup Records...


1)He was the leading run scorer in the 1999 World Cup with 461 runs.


2)Highest score by a wicketkeeper in a World Cup.

Information about his Personal Records...

Test Records

1)Dravid has been involved in the most century partnerships in Test history - 65 (May 2007)

2)Dravid has the second highest Test batting average among those who have scored over 9,000 Test runs (May 2007)

3)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.

4)Longest streak of consecutive Tests since debut

5)Only player to score a century against every Test playing nation away from home (until the ICC decides to add more nations to the list of Test playing nations his record can only be equalled, not broken).

6)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 (the highest partnership between a captain and the vice captain).

7)He is the fastest to reach 9000 runs in Test cricket. In all he took 176 innings to do this, bettering the previous record set by Brian Lara by 1 innings.

8)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.

9)With scores of 50 or more in 7 consecutive Tests Dravid bettered the previous Indian record of 50+ scores in 6 consecutive Tests for a single batsman. This record was shared by Vijay Hazare, Chandu Borde, Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Sadagoppan Ramesh. As of October 2006 this streak is unbroken.

10)He is currently joint 4th along with Brian Lara among batsmen who have scored most away runs in Tests (5288 as of August 9th 2006). Only Sachin Tendulkar, Allan Border and Vivian Richards have scored more away Test runs.

11)9th batsman to score twin hundreds in a Test twice, and only the 2nd Indian to do so, after Sunil Gavakar.

12)1st Indian 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).

One-day against Ireland

The comprehensive 9-wicket win in the rain-hit one-dayer against Ireland notwithstanding, Indian captain Rahul Dravid identified areas for the team to improve.Dravid said the visitors were found wanting a bit in bowling at the death as Ireland, reduced to 111 for 6, went on to post 193 with Niall O'Brien and captain Trent Johnston adding 48 runs for the seventh wicket.

"We got wickets upfront and backed it up with good batting. But bowling at the death, we lacked a bit of experience there. Hopefully we can improve in that department as the season progresses," Dravid said after the match.Sourav Ganguly (75 no) and Gautam Gambhir (80 n.o.) shared a 164-run stand for the unbroken second wicket as India overhauled the revised target of 171 with four overs to spare.

"Small totals can be tricky. And we did not have enough practice in the conditions going into the match. The two of them really batted well; showed good common sense," Dravid said.

"For a young leg-spinner, he gripped the ball very well in these conditions. He is only going to grow as he plays more matches," the skipper said.

"We had enough runs on the board to be competitive. We got Sachin Tendulkar [Images] out early but after that their experience showed. Ours was an inexperienced team," he said

"I have batted at that spot for my state team. So it wasn't a problem," he said

Rahul's Test Record to Stand a Wall

Matches :- 109

Batting :-

Innings :- 185

Not Out's :- 22

Runs :- 9366

Hundreds :- 24

Fifties :- 47

Average :- 57.46

Highest Score :- 270 vs PAK

Bowling :-

Overs :- 20

Maidens :- 4

Runs :- 39

Wickets :- 1

Average :- 39

Best :- 1/18 vs WIN

Fielding :-

Catches :-149

Run outs :- 1

Stumping :- 0

One Day International Records

Matches :- 315

Batting

Innings :- 292

Not Out’s :- 38

Runs :- 10189

Hundreds :- 12

Fifties :- 78

Average :- 40.11

Highest Score :- 153vs NZL

Fielding

Catches :- 183

Run outs :- 5

Bowling

Overs :-31.0

Maidens :- 1

Runs :- 170

Wickets :- 4

Average :- 42.5

Best :-2/43 vs South Africa

Stumpings :- 14