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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 Double Hundreds in a Test Cricket Career

Most Double Hundreds in a Test Cricket Career Player Span Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 0 200s DG Bradman  (Aus) 1928-1948 52 80 10 6996 334 99.94 29 13 7 12 KC Sangakkara  (SL) 2000-2014 129* 221 17 11988 319 58.76 37 51 10 10 BC Lara  (ICC/WI) 1990-2006 131 232 6 11953 400* 52.88 34 48 17 9 WR Hammond  (Eng) 1927-1947 85 140 16 7249 336* 58.45 22 24 4 7 DPMD Jayawardene  (SL) 1997-2014 149 252 15 11814 374 49.84 34 50 15 7 MS Atapattu  (SL) 1990-2007 90 156 15 5502 249 39.02 16 17 22 6 V Sehwag  (ICC/India) 2001-2013 104 180 6 8586 319 49.34 23 32 16 6 Javed Miandad  (Pak) 1976-1993 124 189 21 8832 280* 52.57 23 43 6 6 RT Ponting  (Aus) 1995-2012 168 287 29 13378 257 51.85 41 62 17 6 SR Tendulkar  (India) 1989-2013 200 329 33 15921 248* 53.78 51 68 14 6 Younis Khan  (Pak) 2000-2014 96 172 16 8327 313 53.37 28 29 16 5 GC Smith  (ICC/SA) 2002-2014 117 205 13 9265 277 48.25 27 38 11 5 R Dravid  (ICC/India) 1996-2012 164 286 32 13288 270 52.31 36 63 8 5 Zaheer Abbas  

Australia vs India, 3rd Test, Melbourne

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Australia vs India, 3rd Test, Melbourne Day 1: Stumps Aus 1st Innings -  259/5 (90 overs) Batting Out Desc R B 4s 6s SR Chris Rogers c Dhoni b Shami 57 126 5 0 45.2 David Warner c Dhawan b Umesh 0 6 0 0 0.0 Shane Watson lbw b Ashwin 52 89 4 0 58.4 Steven Smith (c) batting 72 158 4 1 45.6 Shaun Marsh c Dhoni b Shami 32 83 4 0 38.6 Joe Burns c Dhoni b Umesh 13 27 2 0 48.1 Brad Haddin (wk) batting 23 53 1 1 43.4 Extras 10 (b - 1 w - 1, nb - 2, lb - 6) Total 259 (90 Overs, 5 Wickets) Yet To bat: Mitchell Johnson, Ryan Harris, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon Bowler O M R W Nb Wd ER Ishant Sharma 21 6 54 0 2 0 2.6 Umesh Yadav 20 2 69 2 0 0 3.4 Mohammed Shami 17 4 55 2 0 1 3.2 Ravichandran Ashwin 27 7 60 1 0 0 2.2 Murali Vijay 5 0 14 0 0 0 2.8 FOW Batsman Score Over 1 David Warner 0/1 1.6 2 Chris Rogers 115/2 36.2 3 Shane Watson 115/3 37.2 4 Shaun Marsh 184/4 60.6 5 Joe Burns 216/5 70.5 Match Info Info Description Match 3