03-31-2009, 08:08 AM
NAPIER: After making a top-score of 83 in India's first innings, Rahul Dravid scored another patient 62 in the second innings of the second Test against New Zealand here on Sunday.
This was the tenth occasion when Dravid scored at least a fifty in both innings of a Test match. With this he surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's Indian record of doing so on most occasions. The world record is held by Australia's Allan Border with 13 such instances.
Indians with most occasions of fifty in both innings of a Test:
10 by Rahul Dravid
9 by Sunil Gavaskar
8 by Sachin Tendulkar
7 by Gundappa Viswanath
6 by Mohinder Amarnath, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman.
This was the tenth occasion when Dravid scored at least a fifty in both innings of a Test match. With this he surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's Indian record of doing so on most occasions. The world record is held by Australia's Allan Border with 13 such instances.
Indians with most occasions of fifty in both innings of a Test:
10 by Rahul Dravid
9 by Sunil Gavaskar
8 by Sachin Tendulkar
7 by Gundappa Viswanath
6 by Mohinder Amarnath, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman.