Rahul Dravid has a record of most catches in Test cricket

Most catches in Test cricket

New Delhi Rahul Dravid has been one of the many great players to play for India. As a batsman, he was known for his strong technique, patience, and perseverance. Apart from this, he was also known as a great fielder and during his career, he also caught many excellent catches. He was seen as one of the best spill fielders in the history of Test cricket and has 210 catches in his name. Most of these catches he caught in the spill.

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During his playing days for the Indian cricket team, Dravid played many roles. He was the fielder of the spill and he also played the role behind the wicket. He also made an opening for the team and was also seen as a finisher. He also took the captaincy of the team after Sourav Ganguly and under his captaincy, India won the ODI by chasing a record 14 matches.

Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh shared a video of the best catch of Dravid's career and through this video, Bhajji paid tribute to him. With this video, he captioned Outstanding Catcher Rahul Dravid. Seeing this video, former batsman VVS Laxman immediately reacted and called this video of Dravid and his catch sensational.

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Rahul Dravid has 210 catches in Test cricket and he is the highest number of catchers in the longest format from cricket. In 2012, Dravid retired from cricket, but his record is still intact. After this, Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka is present at number two with 205 catches while South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis is the third fielder to take the most catches in Tests with 200 catches.

This record of Rahul Dravid does not seem to be broken at the moment as no cricketer in the Test is currently present in 10 TEN in the case of catches. Dravid also did wicketkeeping for India in 73 ODIs from 1999 to 2004 until Team India got MS Dhoni.

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Dravid had 84 victims in these matches which included 71 catches, 13 stumpings. He played 164 Test matches and 344 ODIs for India. He has 13,288 runs in his name in Tests while 10,889 runs have been registered in his name in ODIs.