Facts About Dravid - ODIs

• Dravid is the 3rd Indian (6th in World) to score more than 10,000 ODI runs.


• Dravid has the record of not being dismissed on duck for the most number of consecutive ODI matches (120).


• 3rd Highest number of fifties after Sachin and Kallis.


• 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 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.


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


• With 461 runs, Dravid finished as the highest run-getter in the 1999 World Cup.


• Rahul Dravid is only one of two Indians to be the top scorer in a World Cup (the other is Sachin Tendulkar). He amassed 461 runs in the 1999 World Cup, the first World Cup he played


• Dravid has the 2nd highest score (145) by a wicketkeeper in a World Cup behind Gilchrist(149).


• Dravid is the second batsman after Mark Waugh to score back-to-back hundreds in the World Cup.


• He kept wicket in 73 games, scored four centuries in those, and averaged five more in those games than his career tally of 39.


• Dravid smashed 22-ball fifty against New Zealand. Only one Indian has scored an ODI fifty faster than him.


• During Rahul Dravid's captaincy Indian team broke the record for most consecutive victories batting second in One-Day Internationals previously held by West Indies (14 matches). For this 17 match run, Dravid was the captain for 15 matches and Sourav Ganguly was the captain for 2 matches. This streak was broken on 20 May 2006, when India lost to the West Indies by 1 run, at Sabina Park, Jamaica.


• Under Dravid's captaincy the Indian team tied the previous record of most consecutive One-Day International wins for an Indian team thus equalling the record run that the Indian team had achieved under Sourav Ganguly in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa. This was later beaten by MS Dhoni who led Indian team to 9 consecutive victories in 2008–2009.