rahul dravid
Rahul Dravid’s 144 runs for India in the second day of the second test against Sri Lanka in Kanpur took him past Australian Allan Border’s 11,174 runs in Test cricket and into fourth place in the all time scorers list.
Dravid sits behind his Indian team mate Sachin Tendulkar, West Indies’ Brian Lara and the current leader Australian captain Ricky Ponting on the list.
It was also Dravid’s 28th test century, coming in an innings in which India’s two opening batsmen had already scored well over a century each themselves, Sehwag getting 131 and Gambhir a brilliant 167, as the home side built an impressive lead.
India did finally succumb to the bowling of Sri Lanka’s Rangana Herath who claimed five of the last six wickets as India finished on 642 all out. It might have been worse for Sri Lanka but at last the wicket appeared to be showing signs of some turn and the spin bowler Herath was able to take advantage.
Things did get worse for Sri Lanka as they came out to bat, Zaheer Khan took the wicket of Tillakaratne Dilshan, before Sri Lanka had scored a run. But the visitors rallied and finished the day on 66 for 1, with both Paranavitana and Sangakkara on 30 not out.
4 comments so far
1 pdk // Nov 26, 2009 at 9:31 am
he is india s number 1 bater
2 biren chauhan // Nov 26, 2009 at 6:15 pm
dravid is known as the pillar of india.he may even surpass the record of sachin tendulkar
3 roby stephen // Dec 6, 2009 at 4:29 pm
in the article above , I did not understand what is meant by current leader ricky ponting? did the wirter mean current australian leader or what?
4 John Williams // Dec 7, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I meant that Ricky Ponting is the current leader of the all time test scorers list.
1. Ricky Ponting
2. Brian Lara
3. Sachin Tendulkar
4. Rahul Dravid
Hope that makes sense.