- Of the 210 catches Dravid took in Test matches, more than half were off the bowling of Anil Kumble (55) and Harbhajan Singh (51).
- Dravid scored more Test runs and centuries at Eden Gardens than at any other ground. In nine Tests there he made 962 runs at an average of 68.71, with four hundreds.
- Dravid scored six Test hundreds in England. Only one Indian has scored more Test centuries in an overseas country Sunil Gavaskar, who has seven in the West Indies.
- Dravid bowled 20 overs in his Test career, and took one wicket for 39 runs: that of West Indies wicketkeeper Ridley Jacobs, in the Antigua Test in 2002.
- Dravid scored 860 runs in World Cups at an average of 61.42. Among batsmen who scored at least 750 World Cup runs only Viv Richards has a better average (1013 runs at 63.31).
- Dravid became the second-oldest batsman to score over 1000 Test runs in a calendar year when he made 1145 runs in 2011, when almost 39. Don Bradman had scored 1025 runs in 1948 when he was nearly 40.
- In an ODI against South Africa in Kochi in 2000, Dravid outbowled Anil Kumble, taking 2 for 43 against Kumble’s 0 for 48
- Shane Warne dismissed Dravid more often than any bowler in Tests eight times in 13 Tests. In all international cricket, Brett Lee leads the way, with 12 dismissals in 38 matches.
- The bowlers who got Dravid out most often in ODIs were both fairly unlikely names: Sanath Jayasuriya and Abdul Razzaq, who dismissed him six times each.
- Three of the four wickets Dravid took bowling in ODIs were of South Africans Shaun Pollock, Gary Kirsten and Lance Klusener. The only other batsman he dismissed in ODIs was Saeed Anwar.
- Dravid was never dismissed for a first-ball duck in Tests. He was, though, run out for 0 without facing a ball once: in the Lahore Test of 2004.
- When Dravid was at the crease, the team scored 32,039 runs, which amounted to 35.6% of the total runs that India made in the Tests in which Dravid played. Dravid is also the only batsman to be involved in more than 700 partnerships; in fact, no other batsman has touched 650 so far.
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