Cricket Update: India vs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rahul-c83321 Dravid making history
Indian super-star Sachin Tendulkar gained the mile-stone of his 50th Test century at Centurion when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 took South Africa on last Thursday. Although India had to face a terrible defeat of an inning and 125 runs but Sachin himself became the first and the
only batsman to cross such a highly esteemed mark.
Zaheer Khan’s absence was highly felt in the first Test at Centurion and he proved his return lucky for India in the second Test. Not only did he increase the zeal of fellow players but also his strong attack from the front took three major wickets for his
struggling team. Yet there are a host of other milestones that are prone to be achieved as the two teams’ notch up in the three-Test series.
The second milestone was attained by the Ex-Captain of the Indian team, Rahul Dravid who managed to take to his name not only the credit of crossing Brian Lara’s tally of 11,953 runs but exceeded the 12000 runs mark, taking him to third place in the list
of leading run-scorers after Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting.
Dravid also equals Brian McMillan’s record of most catches in India-South Africa Tests i.e.
21 catches to his name. Not only this, Dravid also taking a catch from Harbhajan Singh’s delivery made him the only fielder in Test history to take 50 catches of two bowlers. He already had taken 55 catches off http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Anil-Kumble-c44737. His blinder off of Harbhajan’s
“doosra” to knock http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-c52110 Steyn out gave India their seventh wicket of the struggling batting line-up of the African’s.
This was indeed a brilliant come-back from the Indian bowlers after a trembling batting performance. Above all, the biggest record for the day goes to Rahul Dravid who became the only man to have taken 200 Test catches in Test history in the world. India
all out on 205 and it was obvious being a low total, but the pressure was well taken by the bowlers bowling out the strong batting of African’s on 131 with Rahul Dravid, making history.
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