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The Great Indian Sportsperson RAHUL DRAVID's career
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Made his ODI debut against SriLanka at Singapore on April 3, 1996, scoring just three runs in anIndian win.- Made 95 on Test debut againstEngland at Lord's batting at No. 7 in June 1996.- Scored his first Test century (148)against South Africa at Johannesburg in January 1997. - Scored his first ODI century (107) against Pakistan at Chennai in May 1997.
- Finished the ICC ODI World Cup held in England in May-June 1999 as the leading run-getter with 461 runs.
Recorded the highest ever partnership in ODIs with a 331-run stand for the second wicket with Sachin Tendulkar against New Zealand in November 1999. Dravid also posted his highest ODI score of 153 during this partnership.
- Named one of the Top 5 Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2000.
- Joined English county side Kent in 2000 and topped the club’s averages with 1,039 runs at 49.47.
- Scored his first double-ton (200*) in Tests against Zimbabwe at Delhi in November 2000.
- Became the only Indian to score four Test centuries on the trot with innings of 115, 148, 217 and 100* against England (first three) and West Indies (last) respectively between August and October of 2002.
- Posted match-winning innings of 233 & 72* in the Adelaide Test of 2003 to give India their first Test victory in Australia in 23 years.
- Batted for 120 consecutive innings without a duck between 1999 and 2004 – a record for any batsman in ODIs.
- Batted for 173 consecutive innings in international cricket (Tests + ODIs) without a duck between 2000 and 2004 – the longest sequence for any batsman without duck.
- Posted his highest Test score of 270 in the Rawalpindi Test of April 2004, which gave India their first ever series win in Pakistan. It is also the longest ever innings played by an Indian in Test cricket.
- Became only the second batsman after Don Bradman to score double hundreds in three successive series by making 222 vs. New Zealand at Ahmedabad, 2003-04; 233 vs. Australia at Adelaide, 2003-04 and 270 vs. Pakistan at
Rawalpindi, 2003-04.
- Awarded the ICC Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year at the inaugural ICC award ceremony held in September 2004.
- Became the first player to score a century in all Test-playing nations when he scored 160 against Bangladesh at Chittagong in December 2004.
- Has twice scored hundreds in each innings of a Test – v New Zealand at Hamilton in 1998-99 and v Pakistan at Calcutta in 2004-05. He's only the second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to have performed the feat of scoring twin-tons more than once.
- Appointed captain of the Indian team in November 2005.