Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar : DailyJab.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThough he is counted in one of the best players of the world but here are certain facts that either have been forgotten or they do not get much attention. Many of us know that he holds the world record for the most number of catches taken in Test cricket or he is the 2nd leading run scorer in Test cricket but how many of us know that he is the first and the only batsman to score a century in all Test playing nations or he is the only one involved in more than 80 century partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of his best performances have always been overshadowed right from his start of his career. His fighting 95 run stand in his debut was blown out by Ganguly\u2019s 100 in the same match. Everyone remembers Ganguly\u2019s 183 vs SL,Sachin\u2019s186 vs NZ or Laxman\u2019s 281 vs AUS but Dravid\u2019s 145,153 and 180 in these 3 matches only didn\u2019t get much attention. He has been the real backbone throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was the one who kept wickets to accommodate an extra batsman. In ganguly\u2019s absence he led India to its first victory over Pak in Pak. His career best 270 run knock took India to a historic win over Pak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although tagged as \u201cUNSUITABLE\u201d for playing limited over cricket he went on to play and was awarded as the ICC player of the year 2004 and later became one of the few batsmen who surpassed 10,000 runs in the two formats of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the fact which is never talked about is that in the 21 Test wins under Ganguly\u2019s belt, Dravid is the one who averaged around 102.84 i.e., he alone contributed 23% of the runs scored by the team in these 21 test matches which shows the real class of the WALL, and not to forget the current running series in England when everyone is finding it difficult to face, THE WALL has stood firm and much stronger than before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this renowned world of cricket, there are a few names who didn\u2019t get what they deserved. Rahul Dravid is one of them, nicknamed \u201cTHE WALL\u201d and \u201cMR DEPENDABLE\u201d, Dravid has been serving the Indian cricket for more than 15 years. He has been the unsung hero for the Indian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,43],"tags":[46,71,70,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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