Rahul Dravid, unbeaten on 145 in Chittagong on Friday, earned his 18th Test hundred (12th overseas) and became the first-ever player to score hundreds in all 10 Test playing nations. He has also joined a select band of three others ? Gary Kirsten, Steve Waugh and Sachin Tendulkar ? who have scored hundreds against each Test playing nation.
The following is a list of Dravid?s centuries:
l 148 vs South Africa, Johannesburg 1996-97
l 118 vs Zimbabwe, Harare 1998-99
l 190 & 103* vs New Zealand, Hamilton 1998-99
l 107 vs Sri Lanka, Colombo/SSC 1998-99
l 144 vs New Zealand, Mohali 1999-00
l 200* vs Zimbabwe, New Delhi 2000-01
l 162 vs Zimbabwe, Nagpur 2000-01
l 180 vs Australia, Calcutta 2000-01
l 144* vs West Indies, Georgetown 2001-02
l 115 vs England, Nottingham 2002
l 148 vs England, Leeds 2002
l 217 vs England, The Oval 2002
l 100* vs West Indies, Mumbai 2002-03
l 222 vs New Zealand, Ahmedabad 2003-04
l 233 vs Australia, Adelaide 2003-04
l 134* vs Pakistan, Rawalpindi 2003-04
l 145* vs Bangladesh, Chittagong 2004-05
Dravid also nudged ahead of Dilip Vengsarkar?s 17 hundreds for India and is now fourth in Indian rankings for most hundreds scored.
Sachin Tendulkar 34 (119 matches) l Sunil Gavaskar 34 (125) l Mohd. Azharuddin 22 (99) l Rahul Dravid 18 (86) l Dilip Vengsarkar 17 (116) l Gundappa Viswanath 14 (91) l Polly Umrigar 12 (59)
v 344* S.M.Gavaskar/D.B.Vengsarkar vs WI, Calcutta 1978-79
v 259 G.Gambhir/R.Dravid vs Ban, Dhaka 2004-05
v 237 Pankaj Roy/V.L.Manjrekar vs WI, Kingston 1952-53
v 232 S. Ramesh/R.Dravid vs SL, Colombo (SSC) 1998-99
v 224 S.M.Gavaskar/M.Amarnath vs Aus, Sydney 1985-86
v 204 S.M.Gavaskar/S. Amarnath vs NZ, Auckland 1975-76
v 200 A.D.Gaekwad/M.Amarnath vs WI, St John?s 1982-83
