Rahul Dravid scored more runs in India's overseas wins than any other batsman, and his contributions go beyond his aggregate and hundreds
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"As mentioned above, perhaps the most significant aspect of Dravid's Test career was that the runs
he scored contributed significantly to India's wins, mainly overseas. Overall, Dravid scored 5131 runs in
Test wins, next only to Tendulkar's 5594.
However, in overseas Test wins, he was often India's main man, even more than Tendulkar. India won 15 Tests abroad during Dravid's career (excluding matches in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe), and in those games he scored 1577 runs at 65.70 - both aggregate and average is higher than Tendulkar's.
Quite fittingly, Dravid was Man of the Match in the
last overseas Test win that India achieved during his career - his second-innings 112 and match tally of 152 were largely instrumental in India winning a low-scoring game in Kingston by 63 runs.
In all, eight of his 11 Man-of-the-Match awards came in overseas Tests, and five in overseas wins, including unforgettable performances at Headingley (2002), Adelaide (2003), Rawalpindi (2004) and Kingston (2006). Tendulkar won only five out of his
14 Man-of-the-Match awards overseas, and only one in a win (excluding Bangladesh). In fact, no Indian has won as many
match awards overseas as Dravid has. (Remember, though, that this award wasn't always around during the days of some of India's earlier players.)
As well as helping India win overseas, Dravid also scored mountains of runs in draws overseas,
averaging more than 75 in those matches, with ten centuries in 32 Tests. Two of those hundreds were in the drawn game
in Hamilton in 1999, one of two times he scored a century in each innings of a Test. In fact, he is one of only
three Indians to achieve this feat - Sunil Gavaskar and Vijay Hazare are the others."
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