Records

Records

Test

• Scored a century on Test debut
• Scored a century in each of his first two Tests
• Captained India in a record 49 Test matches
• Led India to a record 21 Test wins

ODIs

• Second fastest player to reach 10,000, 11,000 ODI runs
• Fastest to reach multiples of 7,000, 8,000, 9,000 ODI Runs
• Hold the record of most 200+ ODI partnerships (6 times) along with Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting.
• Holds the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for most 1st wicket ODI partnerships of 175+ runs (7 times).
• Holds the record, shared with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the second highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI — 183, against Sri Lanka in 1999.
• Held the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for the highest first wicket partnership for India in a ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001. This record was bettered by Sri Lankan opening pair of Jayasuriya and Tharanga in 2006 at Headingley.
• Was involved in the first 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid.
• Sixth on the all time list with 31 man of the match awards.
• He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive man of the match awards in ODIs.
• India's most successful ODI captain.
• First Indian to score a ODI century against Australia in Australia.
• Highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in 1997.
• Second highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in 1998.
• Highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in 1999.
• Highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in 2000.
• Second highest ODI runs scorer for India (in a calendar year) in 2001.
• Second highest ODI runs scorer for India (in a calendar year) in 2002.
• Third highest ODI runs scorer for India (in a calendar year) in 2003.
• Third highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in 2004.
• Third in the list of hitting maximum number of sixes in ODIs.