Rahul Dravid who achieved a mile stone on Saturday who went past Australian Ricky Ponting to become the second highest run getter in Test cricket during the historic first Test between India and England at Lord's.
In a day of test match when everyone was hoping Sachin to create a new record by scoring his 100th international century. But all cricket fans felt disappointed when he got out for 34.
The 38-year-old Dravid, who had 12,314 runs from 153 Tests at an average of 52.40 before coming into the match, surpassed Ponting who has scored 12,363 runs in 152 games.
Dravid scored 103*not out in India’s first innings which ended at the score of 286/10. Dravid has scored 12417 runs in his 154* tests.
Dravid achieved the milestone when he flicked Graeme Swann through midwicket for a boundary in the fourth ball of the 49th over.
The former India skipper, who interestingly made his Test debut against the same opponents at the same venue in 1996, has 32 hundreds and 60 fifties before this match.
Now two Indians are at the top of the most prolific Test batsmen's chart. Dravid's team-mate Sachin Tendulkar is the highest run scorer, having scored 14,726 runs in 178*.
TOP 10 Test Match Run Scorer
Player Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 0
SR Tendulkar (India) 178* 291 32 14726 248* 56.85 51 59 14
R Dravid (ICC/India) 154* 266 31 12417 270 52.83 33 60 8
RT Ponting (Aus) 152 259 28 12363 257 53.51 39 56 14
BC Lara (ICC/WI) 131 232 6 11953 400* 52.88 34 48 17
JH Kallis (ICC/SA) 145 246 38 11947 201* 57.43 40 54 10
AR Border (Aus) 156 265 44 11174 205 50.56 27 63 11
SR Waugh (Aus) 168 260 46 10927 200 51.06 32 50 22
SM Gavaskar (India) 125 214 16 10122 236* 51.12 34 45 12
DPMD Jayawardene (SL) 119 196 13 9630 374 52.62 28 38 11
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