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Full Name : Sourav Chandidas Ganguly
Born : July 8, 1972, Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal
Major Teams : Bengal, Lancashire, ACC Asian XI, Glamorgan, Kolkata Knight Riders, Pune Warriors, India
Batting Style : Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style : Right Arm Medium Pace
Test debut of Sourav Ganguly
England Vs India at Lord’s, 1996
Last Test of Sourav Ganguly
India Vs Australia at Nagpur, 2008
ODI debut of Sourav Ganguly
India Vs West Indies at Brisbane, 1992
Last ODI of Sourav Ganguly
India Vs Pakistan at Gwalior, 2007
Batting and Fielding Statistics of Sourav Ganguly
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
113
188
17
7212
239
42.17
14070
51.25
16
35
900
57
71
0
ODIs
311
300
23
11363
183
41.02
15416
73.70
22
72
1122
190
100
0
Bowling Statistics of Sourav Ganguly
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
113
99
3117
1681
32
3/28
3/37
52.53
3.23
97.4
0
0
0
ODIs
311
171
4561
3849
100
5/16
5/16
38.49
5.06
45.6
1
2
0
A Tribute on Saurav Ganguly – His bat sings sweeter than his chin!
Sunday morning at the Gabba, Sourav Ganguly was a man who had won himself, who had overcome his self doubts, who had got himself out of his own way.
When he swept MacGill just wide of the fine leg, Ganguly ran very hard to convert what was nothing more than an easy one by his and Laxman’s standards, into a couple to get to his hundred. Read More
Dada, we are sorry about it!
Today Ganguly’s name gets even bigger with the lore of Greg Chappell attached with him. His inspiring comeback seems to be out of the pages of some motivating Hollywood flick. Three hundred ODI appearances with huge amount of runs with umpteenth match winning innings, the tag of most successful skipper of Indian cricket and still found it tough to prove his honesty and passion for the Indian team. Read More
The Maharaj is battling it out like a true soldier
A flamboyant left hander, one of the best batsmen in the limited version of the game and a Maharaj of Indian Cricket for a long time and that is Sourav Chandidas Ganguly. India required 227 to win at Belfast, the pitch was favouring the seam bowlers and Makhaya was simply hostile, the ball was heading towards the sky each time he ran into bowl, such was the pace and bounce he was extracting. Read More
Ganguly the Glorious Gladiator
Here were two men, as different as chalk and cheese, fighting out their egos and causing frayed nerves and bringing about a lump in the throat of the Indian team. The unwarranted faith in the foreign coach forced Ganguly to cool his heels in the river Hoogly and the task of the steering the Indian Ship was now thrust in the hands of a mute spectator. Not surprisingly, a loud hue and cry reverberated throughout the nation and the Bengali babus threw in their weight for their Prince of Kolkata. Read More