Statistical Comparison: Rahul Dravid vs Sachin Tendulkar in Test cricket

#3 Figures outside Asia

Player	Rahul Dravid	Sachin Tendulkar
Matches	69	77
Innings	126	135
Runs	5918	6247
Average	53.80	50.37
Top score	233	241*
100s	14	18
50s	31	30

Rahul Dravid is known to be the man who taught India how to win outside the sub-continent. It’s no co-incidence that some of India’s greatest victories in other continents – be it Headingley 2002, Adelaide 2003, Kingston 2006, Perth 2008 – all have a heavy Dravid imprint.

Hence, it’s no surprise to see that Dravid has a better average than Sachin Tendulkar. Tendulkar, having played 8 more Tests under such conditions, has scored just over 300 runs more than his counterpart. Both averaging over 50 in conditions that are alien to Indian cricketers, shows how great they were. Very few cricketers in the history of cricket have an average of 50+ both home and away.

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