India's Rahul Dravid now holds the record of scoring more runs than any other batsman in fourth innings of a Test match.
At the end of fourth day's play in the Lord's Test, Dravid has aggregated 1468 runs in fourth innings of Tests at an average of 44.48. This takes him ahead of Brian Lara, who had a tally of 1,440 runs in the fourth innings of Tests.
Interestingly Dravid's average shoots up to 72.78 in successful fourth innings chases and matches where India earned a draw while batting last. India will need Dravid to play another memorable knock to bail them out today. Can he do this one more time?
Highest run-aggregate in fourth innings of a Test
Inns
NO
Runs
Hs
Avg
100
50
R Dravid (Ind)
52
19
1468
103*
44.48
1
9
BC Lara (WI)
46
5
1440
153*
35.12
2
7
S Chanderpaul (WI)
43
10
1406
116*
42.60
2
10
SM Gavaskar (Ind)
33
9
1398
221
58.25
4
8
CG Greenidge (WI)
38
12
1383
214*
53.19
3
6
MA Atherton (Eng)
39
6
1375
185*
41.66
2
9
SR Tendulkar (Ind)
50
15
1371
136
39.17
3
5
RT Ponting (Aus)
39
14
1362
156
54.48
4
5
GC Smith (SA)
31
6
1322
154*
52.88
3
8
ML Hayden (Aus)
39
13
1287
101*
49.50
1
9
RR Sarwan (WI)
36
3
1241
128
37.60
4
4
G Boycott (Eng)
34
13
1234
128*
58.76
3
7
JH Kallis (SA)
42
14
1229
101
43.89
1
10
CH Gayle (WI)
35
5
1184
82
39.46
0
11
AJ Stewart (Eng)
39
6
1134
119
34.36
1
6
GA Gooch (Eng)
29
4
1121
133
44.84
3
5
DL Haynes (WI)
45
20
1092
112*
43.68
2
4
JL Langer (Aus)
33
7
1053
127
40.50
2
6
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