Rahul Dravid's achievements as captain 

#3 First series win in the West Indies after 1971 (1-0 in 2006)

The West Indies, albeit a pale shadow of their former self, were always a force to be reckoned with at home, something which Ganguly's team found in their series loss in 2002. The 2006 tour to the Caribbean hadn't started well either for the tourists as they squandered their 1-0 lead to face the ignominy of a 1-4 drubbing. India hadn't won a series in the Windies after Ajit Wadekar's successful tour of 1971, and the 2006 tour offered them the best chance to do so.

India came within one wicket of winning the first test at Antigua, only to be deprived by a defiant West Indian tail. The second Test at the Gros Islet too was a gripping affair that went down to the last ball. West Indies came hard at the Indians in the third test at St Kitt's with Darren Ganga and Ramnaresh Sarwan notching up big hundreds that propelled the hosts to 581 in the first innings, but Brian Lara's decision of not enforcing the follow-on after they had bowled India out for 362, allowed the Indian batsmen to bat out time on the final day to salvage a draw. That meant the series was reduced to a one-match shootout, scheduled to be played at Kingston, Jamaica.

On a pitch that was expected to offer prodigious seam and bounce, Dravid won the toss and decided to bat first. He found himself marking his batting guard in the opening hour with the score reading 2/2. It soon became 34/3 as Jerome Taylor and Corey Collymore made further inroads. Dravid looked a class apart from his contemporaries, as he compiled an awe-inspiring 81 off 215 deliveries, to control India's fledgling innings. Dravid's innings helped India post 200, which proved to be extremely decisive as the tourists bowled the West Indies out for 103, securing a significant lead of 97 runs in the process. Dravid wasn't done yet as he again found himself at the crease at 6/2 in the second innings, with Taylor nipping out the Indian openers. With Laxman, Yuvraj and MS Dhoni following suit, Dravid (68 off 166 balls) completed an encore of his first innings' efforts and helped his team set up what would eventually turn out to be a series-winning target.

Sreesanth and Anil Kumble completed the proceedings for India in the fourth Innings as the latter's haul of 6/78 bowled the West Indies out for 219. The win, built on the perseverance and grit of Dravid, broke the 25 years drought of a series win in the Caribbean.