Sourav Ganguly

Nick Name

: The Prince of Calcutta, The Maharaja, The God of the Off Side, Dada, The Warrior Prince

Born

:08 Jul,1972

Age

:47 years, 1 months

Location

:Behala, Bengal, India

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About Sourav Ganguly

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly affectionately known as Dada (meaning elder brother) is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national team. Currently, he is appointed as CEO of Cricket Association of Bengal and President of the Editorial Board with Wisden India.

SOURAV IN WISDEN:

Ganguly S C 141* Ind vs SA, 2000, Nairobi.Sourav has 4 of his innings in top 100 ODI innings declared by Wisden Cricket and 3 in top 25.
Ganguly S C 141 Ind vs Pak, 2000, Adelaide Oval.
Ganguly S C 183 Ind vs SL, 1999, County Ground.
Ganguly S C 153* Ind vs NZ, 1999, Captain Roop Singh Stadium.

Sourav has 3 of his innings in Top 5 ODI innings played by Indian batsman as declared by Wisden Cricket.

Ganguly S.C 141* 196.71 India Vs South Africa 2000, Nairobi Gymkhana Club Ground
Ganguly S.C 141 194.35 India Vs Pakistan, 2000, Adelaide Oval
Ganguly S.C 183 194.07 India Vs Sri Lanka,1999, County Ground, Taunton.

SOURAV IN ODIs

· Second fastest player to reach 10,000 ODI runs.

· Fastest to reach multiples of 7,000,8,000, 9,000 ODI Runs.

· Second Fastest after Viv Richards to reach 6,000 ODI Runs in 147 Innings and Sachin Tendulkar to 10,000 in 263 Innings.

In the Sahara Cup 1997, Saurav Ganguly set a World Record for 4 consecutive Man of the Match Awards and later he was declared as the Man of The series also.

· Sourav is the highest run scorer in the world in the calendar year of

1997 - with 1338 runs

1999 - with 1767 runs

2000 - with 1579 runs

in 1998, he was the 2nd highest total run scorer in the world after Sachin Tendulakr.

Sachin scored 1894 runs while sourav scored 1328 runs.

Which means he ruled the world cricket in batting

for 4 years.He scored 1114 runs in year 2002 also.

· Holds the record, shared withMahendra Singh Dhoni, for the second highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI — 183, against Sri Lanka in 1999.

· Held the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for the highest first wicket partnership for India in a ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001. This record was bettered by Sri Lankan opening pair of Jayasuriya and Tharanga in 2006 at Headingly.

· Was involved in the first 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid.

· Sourav with Sachin tops the list of Highest overall partnership runs by openers with 5799 runs(17 hundred runs partnership which too is a record).

· Sourav with Sachin tops the list of Highest overall partnership runs by a pair playing at any position with total 7417 runs(22 hundred runs partnership which too is a record) till date and while his partnershipship with Rahul Dravid is on the 5th spot in this list with a total of 4245 runs.

· Sixth on the all time list with 30 man of the match awards.

· First Indian to score an ODI century against Australia in Australia.(who says he is afraid of fast tracks :P)

· Sourav is among those 9 cricketers of the world who scored a century and took 4 wickets in the same match. He first scored 130* and l ater took 4/21 against SL in 1999 at Nagpur.

· Sourav is among those 12 cricketers of the world who scored a half century and took 5 wickets in the same match. He scored 71* and took 5/34 against Zim in 2000 at Kanpur.

· Sourav Ganguly in ICC World Cup 2002/03 scored a total of 465 runs and this performance is on 5th spot in the list of Most runs in an series by a captain with unfornately Greg Chappell topping the list :D

· In Feb 2005: Climbed to the number 3 spot in the list of most sixes hit by a batsman in ODI with 168 sixes in 247 matches.

SOURAV IN WORLD CUP:

Sourav jointly(with Mark Waugh, Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting) holds the record of scoring maximum number of centuries (4) in world cup.

· Sourav holds the record of scoring maximum number of centuries in a single WC (3 centuries in WC-03) jointly with Mark Waugh and Mathew Hayden.

· Sourav holds the record of scoring most runs through boundaries in an innings in any World Cup match. He scored 110 runs by boundaries in his mammoth 183 score against SL in taunton in WC-99.

· Sourav’s 183 is the second highest score in an inning by any cricketer with Kirsten topping the list with 188*.

· Sourav with Dravid holds the record of heighest partnership of 318 runs in WC while the 2nd spont in the list too goes to Sourav with Sachin who scored 244 runs together against Namibia in WC-03.

SOURAV IN TESTS:

One of 3 batsman who made tons in their 1st two Test innings.

· Sourav was only the 3rd batsman in the world to score a centuryon debut at Lords.

· His 131 still remains thehighest by any batsmanon his debut at Lord’s.

· In May 2004: Joined the top 20 list of players whohit the most sixes in Test cricket, with 41 sixes.

SOURAV AS CAPTAIN:

Captained India in a record 49 Test matches.

· Led India to a record 21 Test wins.

· India's most successful Test captain.

· India's most successful ODI captain.

· In the 2nd Test vs. Australia at Kolkata in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Sourav became only the 3rd captain in Cricket history to lead a team to victory after following on. India went on to win the series 2-1.

· In Mar - Apr 2004: Became the first Indian captain to win an ODI and Test series in Pakistan.

· In April 2005: Became only the 3rd cricketer and 2nd Indian after Mohammed Azharuddin to make 5000 ODI runs as skipper in the Pepsi Cup vs. Pakistan.