rahul dravid scored his highest individual total in test cricket against the team pakistan.
rahul dravid scored his highest individual total in test cricket against the team pakistan.
against which team did rahul dravid scored his highest individual total in test cricket?
pakistan
dravid scored his first test century in january 1997 against south africa. in a man-of-the-match performance, he made 148 runs spanning nine hours and took india to their only draw of the series. he made centuries in both innings of a match when he scored 190 and 103 not out in the final test of the 1998–99 series against new zealand. he repeated the feat in march 2005 when he scored 110 and 135 against pakistan in another man-of-the-match performance, leading india to victory in the second of the three-match series. scoring 180 in a fifth-wicket partnership of 376 with vvs laxman, in the second test of the border-gavaskar trophy in 2001, dravid helped lead india to victory by 171 runs despite being asked to follow-on by the australians. his partnership with laxman was the third-highest for the fifth wicket in test cricket history. dravid's highest test score of 270, achieved in april 2004 in rawalpindi, helped india to an innings victory against pakistan. the performance was the fourth-highest score by an indian batsman in test cricket. he scored centuries against all test playing nations and was the first cricketer to score centuries in all 10 test playing nations.
list of international cricket centuries by rahul dravid
coming in to bat at no. 7, he forged important partnerships, first with another debutante sourav ganguly and then with indian lower order, securing a vital first innings lead for his team. dravid scored 95 runs before getting out to the bowling of chris lewis. he was just five runs short of a landmark debut hundred when he nicked a lewis delivery to the keeper and walked even before umpire's decision. he also took his first catch in test cricket in this match to dismiss nasser hussain off the bowling of srinath. in the next tour game against british universities, dravid scored a hundred. he scored another fifty in the first innings of the third test. dravid concluded a successful debut series with an impressive average of 62.33 from two test matches.
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