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Most minutes spent at crease by a batsmen in Test Cricket

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Most minutes spent at crease by a batsmen in Test Cricket   Rahul Dravid has spent the most minutes at crease in Test Cricket Rahul Dravid, 'The Wall' of Indian Cricket, holds the record of spending most minutes at crease by a batsmen in Test Cricket. He is also the only batsmen to have spent more than 42,000 minutes at crease in Test Cricket.  Throughout his 16-year Test career, Dravid possessed the unmatchable ability of being at the crease for long time. In his 164 Tests, he managed to stay at the crease for 44,152 minutes. His longest Test innings came against Pakistan at Rawalpindi in 2004. In that match, he hung around for 740 minutes (twelve and a half hours approx.) and aggregated 270 runs off 495 balls with 34 boundaries and a six.  This record of Dravid, alongwith his record of facing the most number of balls in Test Cricket is expected to stay for a long time because all the other featuring in this list except Shivnarine Chanderpaul have retired.  It's actual

Most runs in Test Cricket Career

Most runs Player Span Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 0 SR Tendulkar  (India) 1989-2013 200 329 33 15921 248* 53.78 51 68 14 RT Ponting  (Aus) 1995-2012 168 287 29 13378 257 51.85 41 62 17 JH Kallis  (ICC/SA) 1995-2013 166 280 40 13289 224 55.37 45 58 16 R Dravid  (ICC/India) 1996-2012 164 286 32 13288 270 52.31 36 63 8 KC Sangakkara  (SL) 2000-2014 129* 221 17 11988 319 58.76 37 51 10 BC Lara  (ICC/WI) 1990-2006 131 232 6 11953 400* 52.88 34 48 17 DPMD Jayawardene  (SL) 1997-2014 149 252 15 11814 374 49.84 34 50 15 S Chanderpaul  (WI) 1994-2014 160* 271 49 11709 203* 52.74 30 65 14 AR Border  (Aus) 1978-1994 156 265 44 11174 205 50.56 27 63 11 SR Waugh  (Aus) 1985-2004 168 260 46 10927 200 51.06 32 50 22 SM Gavaskar  (India) 1971-1987 125 214 16 10122 236* 51.12 34 45 12 GC Smith  (ICC/SA) 2002-2014 117 205 13 9265 277 48.25 27 38 11 GA Gooch  (Eng) 1975-1995 118 215 6 8900 333 42.58 20 46 13 Javed Miandad  (Pak) 1976-1993 124 189 21 8832 280* 52.57 23 43 6 Inzamam-ul-