Not gonna post his career stats cos he aint finished yet instead gonna list a few of his acheivements and they are in no specific order....
- He was the leading run scorer in the 1999 World Cup with 461 runs.
- The highest winning percentage among all the captains who have captained their sides in at least 5 ODIs. He's won 23, lost 13 and had no result in 1 - this winning percentage of 62.16 displaces Ajay Jadeja's 61.54
- Has the highest ODI batting average as captain of 45.58 (as of 4/7/06), among all captains who have captained more than 10 ODIs.
- Under his captaincy the Indian team tied the previous record of most consecutive wins for an Indian team (8).
- During his captaincy the Indian team broke the 14 match West Indies record for most consecutive won matches while chasing a total For this 17 match run, Dravid was captain for 15 and Sourav Ganguly was captain for the other two. This streak was broken on 5/20/06, when India lost to the West Indies by one run, at Sabina Park, Jamaica.
- Most number of double centuries(5) by an Indian
- dravid has 3rd highest number of Half-centuries (71) after Inzamam(82) and sachin(72)
- the highest batting average (58.34) among those who have scored over 8,000 Test runs or who has played more than 100 matches
- scored INDIAS second fastest fifty in 22 balls
- did not miss a single test match for india since debut until recently(94 matches) A WORLD RECORD.
- 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.
- He averages staggering 80 runs per innings in the tests that India won or drawn...aptly said 'when Rahul does well..India does well'
- To his credit of his 22 100s and 9 scores in 90s on only two ocassions india lost.... a rare record
- 2nd most 100s in consecutive innings --4 100s
115 v England,Nottingham ,to draw the match scrd it in the 2nd inn.
148 v England,Leeds,to win the match on a green top
217 v England,The Oval,to draw the match aftr eng. piled up a huge scr.
100* v WI Mumbai ,to win the match - and one of the intersting record is when he scored 270 against pakistan, pakistan team scored less than 270 in each of the iniings of that match.(233 and 245....)
- Most odi innings without a duck....he bettered that record and the next innings he got a duck.....
- Rahul Dravid(in 158 inn)3rd fastest to reach 8000 run club in tests
- 3rd highest run scorer in odi's in a calendar year ...with 1761 runs in 43 inn. at an avg of 46....
- Only player to score a century against every Test playing nation away from home.
- The only batsman to have been involved in two ODI partnerships exceeding 300 runs. With Ganguly at Taunton and with Sachin at Hyderabad.
- highest score by a wicket keeper in a world cup 146 vs SriLanka at Taunton.
- also the second highest score by an Indian wicket keeper after Dhoni.
- Rahul Dravid led India to a historic test series win, against the West Indies in their home soil in 2006. Since 1971, India had never won a test series in the West Indies. This is also their first prominent series win outside the Indian subcontinent (barring the win against Zimbabwe in 2005) since 1986.
- each of his five double centuries in Tests was a higher score than his previous double century (200*, 217, 222, 233, 270).
- Scored his first test duck in his 24th test.
