had been discussed and sorted amicably behind closed doors. India eventually went on to win the match by innings margin. Pakistan leveled the series beating India in the Second Test. Dravid slammed a double hundred in the Third Test at Rawalpindi – his third double hundred of the season. He scored 270 runs – his career best performance – before getting out playing a reverse sweep trying to force the pace. India went on to win the match and the series – their first series victory outside India since 1993 and first ever in Pakistan. Dravid was adjudged man of the match for his effort. He topped the international averages for 2003/04 Test season with 1241 runs from nine tests at an average of 95.46. India reached the Finals of 2004 Asia Cup where they lost to Sri Lanka. Dravid scored a hundred against U.A.E. which earned him a Man of the Match award and another fifty against Sri Lanka in the tournament along with five dismissals behind the wicket. He did not make any significant contribution with the bat in the ensuing Videocon Cup but scored a fifty in the 3-match bilateral ODI series in England and top scored for India in the failed campaign at 2004 ICC Champion's Trophy. Dravid did not do too well in the ensuing Border-Gavaskar Trophy at home scoring just one fifty in four matches as India went on to lose the series but contributed two fifties to India's 1-0 victory in the 2-match home test series against South Africa. Sandwiched between the two test series, India played a solitary ODI against Pakistan at home to mark 75th anniversary of BCCI. The match turned out to be Dravid's last ODI as the designated wicket keeper. In all, Dravid effected 84 dismissals (71 catches, 13 stumpings) in 73 matches as India's designated keeper, which is 4th highest only behind Dhoni, Mongia and More. Dravid had a good outing in Bangladesh where he scored a hundred in the Test series and two fifties in the ODI series with India winning both the series. Dravid kick-started the year 2005 representing Asia XI against ICC World XI. He top scored for Asia XI with an unbeaten fifty but could not take his team to victory against the ICC World XI. Pakistan visited India in March 2005 for bilateral Test and ODI series. Dravid scored two hundreds and a