The Hyderabadi's performance in Sri Lanka was far better that of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly. He scored 215 runs in six innings @ 48.53, inclusive of two half-centuries.
Though Bradman only played Test cricket abroad in England during his 20-year career, the Australians would traditionally make a stopover in Colombo.
Players' statistics for the India vs Sri Lanka ODIs.
This was one of Tendulkar's worst performances in a Test series after which he has dropped the 23rd in the latest ICC Test rankings for batsmen.
Here is a list of players captaining Test teams despite being born in a different country.
Virender Sehwag smashed a brilliant 128, but the loss of four quick wickets saw India end Day 1 on 214 for 4, in the second Test against Sri Lanka in Galle.
India have played a total of 124 international games since January 1, 2006 -- 28 Tests, 86 One-Day Internationals and 10 Twenty20 internationals and Dhoni missed just six of them, which includes two Tests and four ODIs.
The seven-wicket victory over Bangladesh in the Asia Cup in Karachi on Saturday marked the first time that India's number of victories in One-Day Internationals exceeded its losses.
Suresh Raina's 66-ball hundred in the Asia Cup match against Hong Kong on Wednesday is the second fastest ODI hundred by an Indian batsman.
Salman Butt's hundred against India on Saturday was seventh of his ODI career. Interestingly five of them have come against India (and remaining two vs Bangladesh). Butt now shares the record of scoring most hundreds against India.
The victory margin of 140 runs in Tuesday's ODI is the biggest for India in all matches versus Pakistan.
Australia's Shaun Marsh and Pakistan's Sohail Tanvir emerged with the most runs and wickets respectively at the end of the league stage in the Indian Premier League. A statistical outlook of the tournament thus far.
A look at Sachin Tendulkar's career on the occassion of his 35th birthday on April 24, Thursday.
Sachin Tendulkar's records and milestones in ODIs and Twenty20 cricket.
Tendulkar is the highest run scoring Indian with 11,782 Test runs and the second highest in the world, after Brian Lara.
From the highs of Chennai Test, Indian batting plummetted to the unforeseen depths in the second Test at Ahmedabad.
South Africa aggregated 871 runs in their two innings in the Chennai Test, which is the second best performance by a visiting side on Indian soil.
Rahul Dravid on Saturday became third Indian and only the sixth batsman in Test chronicles to aggregate 10,000 runs in a career.
Virender Sehwag reached his triple century on Friday off 278 balls which makes it the fastest triple century in terms of balls faced.
Tendulkar became only the second batsman after Sir Don Bradman to make 5000 or more runs against a particular opponent in all forms of international cricket.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances