Happy Birthday Rahul Dravid: 10 unique cricketing records held by 'The Wall'

Rahul Dravid was a magnificent slip fielder. He took 210 catches in his 164-match long Test career- the highest by any non-wicketkeeper fielder. (Image: PTI)

Rahul Dravid faced the highest number of balls in his Test career spanning over 16 years. He has faced 31,258 deliveries during his Test Career, with the next closest batman being Tendulkar at 29,437 balls. (Image: AFP)

Rahul Dravid holds the record for most time spent at the crease by a Test batsman, recording 735 hours and 52 minutes (44,152 minutes) on the pitch. (Image; Reutes)

Rahul Dravid is the first international cricketer to have scored more than 10,000 runs batting at no. 3 position - 10,524 runs from 219 innings at an avg. of 52.88 with 28 hundreds and 50 fifties and a highest score of 270. (Image: AFP)

Rahul Dravid is the only Indian cricketer to score a hundred in 4 consecutive innings. He achieved this feat in 2002 with scores of 115, 148, 217 (all against England) at Nottingham, Leeds and The Oval respectively and 100n.o. against West Indies at Mumbai. (Image: BCCI)

Rahul Dravid has more partnership runs (32,039) than any other batsman in Test Cricket. Dravid has more hundred run partnerships and more fifty run partnerships than any other batsman - 88 and 126 respectively. He was involved in 2nd most number of partnerships (738) behind Shivnarine Chanderpaul (750) in Test cricket history. (Image: AFP)

Dravid and Tendulkar have scored more partnership runs and have been involved in more hundred run stands than any other batting pair - 6,920 runs with 20 century stands - both are world records. (Image: AFP)

The only batsman to have been involved in two ODI partnerships exceeding 300 runs. Dravid was also the first batsman to be involved in a 300 run partnership in a Cricket World Cup along with Sourav Ganguly in the 1999 World Cup match against Sri Lanka at Taunton. (Image: File Photo)

Rahul Dravid has the record of not being dismissed on duck for the most consecutive ODI matches (120) to his name. Among all the batsmen who have scored more than 10,000 runs in Test cricket during their career, Dravid has been dismissed for a duck the least number of times – 8 times. (Image: BCCI)

Rahul Dravid is the first batsman to have scored centuries in all 10 Test cricket playing nations. England, West Indies, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India were the 10 Test playing nations during his career. (Image: AFP)

While Rahul Dravid was not famous for his quick batting but he made his way into the record books as the batsman with joint-second fastest fifty in ODIs for India when he slammed 50 in just 22 deliveries against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 2003. (Image: File Photo)