Sourav Ganguly- The Prince of Calcutta

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Sourav Chandidas Ganguly born on 8 July 1972, warmly known as Dada (signifying "senior sibling" in Bengali), is a previous Indian cricketer and commander of the Indian national group, Currently, he is designated as the President of the Cricket Association of Bengal and President of the Editorial Board with Wisden India. Amid his playing vocation, Ganguly settled himself as one of the world's driving batsmen and furthermore one of the best chiefs of the national cricket group. While batting, he was particularly productive through the off side, acquiring himself the epithet God of the Off Side for his rich strokeplay square of the wicket and through the spreads.

Sourav Ganguly is one of the four individuals from the Indian Premier League's Governing Council, in charge of the considerable number of elements of the competition. He was selected by Supreme Court in January 2016. He is likewise an individual from Technical Committee, Indian Premier League.

Ganguly was brought into the universe of cricket by his senior sibling, Snehasish. He is viewed as a standout amongst India's best chiefs in present day times, and one of the best ODI batsmen ever. He began his vocation by playing in state and school groups. Right now, he is the eighth most noteworthy run scorer in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and was the third batsman in history to cross the 10,000 run milestone, after Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam Ul Haq. In 2002, the Wisden Cricketers' Almanac positioned him the 6th most noteworthy ODI batsman ever, by Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Dean Jones and Michael Bevan.

Ganguly joined the Kolkata Knight Riders group as chief for the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition in 2008. That year, after a home Test arrangement against Australia, he reported his retirement from universal cricket. He kept on playing for the Bengal group and was selected the executive of the Cricket Association of Bengal's Cricket Development Committee. The left-gave Ganguly was a productive One Day International (ODI) batsman, with more than 11,000 ODI rushes shockingly. He is a standout amongst the best Indian Test chiefs to date, winning 21 out of 49 test matches.Sourav Gangly is the best Indian test skipper abroad with 11 wins. The Indian group was positioned eighth in the ICC rankings before he turned into the chief, and under his residency the group rank went up to second. A forceful commander, Ganguly is credited with having supported the vocations of numerous youthful players who played under him, and changing the Indian group into a forceful battling unit.

Alongside Harshavardhan Neotia, Sanjiv Goenka, and Utsav Parekh, Ganguly is additionally the co-proprietor of Atlético de Kolkata, an establishment of the Indian Super League, which won the debut season in 2014.

Ganguly was granted with the Banga Bibhushan Award from the Government of West Bengal on 20 May 2013.

Ganguly is at present a piece of the Supreme Court of India designated Justice Mudgal Committee test board for the IPL Spot fixing and wagering outrage's examinations.

Full Name : Sourav Chandidas Ganguly

Born : 08/07/1972, Kolkata, India

Teams : India , Asia XI, Bengal, East Zone, Glamorgan, India U-19,Kolkata Knight Riders, Lancashire,Marylebon Cricket Club, Northamptonshire, Pune Warriors.

Batting Style : Left-hand Bat

Bowling Style : Right -arm Medium

Height : 5 ft 11 in

Education : B.Com. St Xavier's College

Brief Biography

1972– 1989: Early life and prologue to cricket

Sourav Ganguly was conceived on 8 July 1972 in Calcutta, and is the most youthful child of Chandidas and Nirupa Ganguly. Chandidas maintained a thriving print business and was one of the most extravagant men in the city. Ganguly had a sumptuous youth and was nicknamed the 'Maharaja', which means the 'Incomparable King'. Ganguly's dad Chandidas Ganguly kicked the bucket at 73 years old on 21 February 2013 after a long ailment.

Since the most loved game for the general population of Calcutta was football, Ganguly was at first pulled in to the diversion. Be that as it may, scholastics came in the middle of his affection for games and Nirupa was not extremely strong of Ganguly taking up cricket or some other game as a vocation. By at that point, his senior sibling Snehasish was at that point a set up cricketer for the Bengal cricket group. He bolstered Ganguly's fantasy to be a cricketer and requested that their dad get Ganguly joined up with a cricket instructing camp amid his late spring occasions. Ganguly was contemplating in tenth standard around then.

Regardless of being correct given, Ganguly figured out how to bat left-gave so he could utilize his sibling's wearing hardware. After he demonstrated some guarantee as a batsman, he was taken on a cricket institute. An indoor multi-exercise center and solid wicket was worked at their home, so he and Snehasish could rehearse the diversion. They used to watch various old cricket coordinate recordings, particularly the amusements played by David Gower, whom Ganguly respected. After he scored a century against the Orissa Under– 15 side, he was made commander of St Xavier's School's cricket group, where a few of his partners griped against what they saw to be his haughtiness. While visiting with a lesser group, Ganguly rejected his turn as the twelfth man, as he apparently felt that the obligations included, which included arranging hardware and beverages for the players, and conveying messages, were underneath his economic wellbeing. Ganguly purportedly would not do such assignments as he considered it underneath his economic wellbeing to help his colleagues in such a way. In any case, his playmanship allowed him to make his top notch cricket debut for Bengal in 1989, that year that his sibling was dropped from the group.

1990– 96: Career Starting and Introduction Achievement

Following a productive Ranji season in 1990– 91, Ganguly scored three keeps running in his One Day International (ODI) debut for India against the West Indies in 1992. He was dropped quickly since he was seen to be "pompous" and his frame of mind towards the diversion was transparently addressed. It was reputed that Ganguly would not convey drinks for his colleagues, remarking that it was not his business to do as such, later denied by him. Subsequently, he was expelled from the group. He works away in household cricket, scoring intensely in the 1993– 94 and 1994– 95 Ranji seasons.

Following an innings of 171 in the 1995– 96 Duleep Trophy, he was reviewed to the National group for a voyage through England in 1996, amidst exceptional media investigation. He played in a solitary ODI, yet was discarded from the group for the main Test. Be that as it may, after colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu left the visiting, refering to abuse by then chief Mohammad Azharuddin, Ganguly made his Test debut against England in the Second Test of a three-coordinate arrangement at Lord's Cricket Ground close by Rahul Dravid.

England had won the First Test of the three-coordinate arrangement; notwithstanding, Ganguly scored a century, winding up just the third cricketer to accomplish such an accomplishment on presentation at Lord's, after Harry Graham and John Hampshire. Andrew Strauss and Matt Prior have since achieved this accomplishment, yet Ganguly's 131 still remains the most noteworthy by any batsman on his introduction at the ground. India was not required to bat in the second innings because of the match finishing in a draw. In the following Test coordinate at Trent Bridge he made 136, therefore ending up just the third batsman to make a century in every one of his initial two innings (after Lawrence Rowe and Alvin Kallicharran). He shared a 255 run remain with Sachin Tendulkar, which moved toward becoming around then the most noteworthy organization for India against any nation for any wicket outside India. The Test again finished in a draw, giving England a 1– 0 arrangement triumph; Ganguly scored 48 in the second innings.

1997– 99: Marriage, Opening in ODIs and World Cup '99

Weeks after his fruitful voyage through England, Ganguly absconded with youth sweetheart Dona Roy. The lady of the hour and lucky man's family were sworn foes by then and this news caused a hullabaloo between them. Nonetheless, the two families accommodated and a formal wedding was held in February 1997. Same year, Ganguly scored his lady ODI century by hitting 113, contradicted to Sri Lanka's group aggregate of 238. Soon thereafter, he won four back to back man of the match grants, in the Sahara Cup with Pakistan; the second of these was won after he took five wickets for 16 keeps running off 10 overs, his best bowling in an ODI. After a desolate keep running in Test cricket his structure returned toward the year's end with three centuries in four Tests, all against Sri Lanka, and two of these included stands with Sachin Tendulkar of more than 250.

Amid the third last of the Independence Cup at Dhaka in January 1998, India effectively pursued down 315 off 48 overs, and Ganguly won the Man of the Match grant. In March 1998 he was a piece of the Indian group that crushed Australia; in Kolkata, he took three wickets having opened the bowling with his medium pace.

Ganguly was a piece of the Indian group that contended in the 1999 World Cup in England. Amid the match against Sri Lanka at Taunton, India batted. After Sadagoppan Ramesh was bowled, Ganguly scored 183 from 158 balls, and hit 17 fours and seven sixes. It turned into the second most elevated score in World Cup history and the most astounding by an Indian in the competition. His organization of 318 with Rahul Dravid is the most noteworthy generally speaking score in a World Cup and is the second most astounding in all ODI cricket. In 1999– 00, India lost Test arrangement to both Australia and South Africa that included a consolidated aggregate of five Tests. Ganguly battled scoring 224 keeps running at 22.40; anyway his ODI structure was amazing, with five centuries over the season taking him to the highest point of the PwC One Day Ratings for batsmen. Around a similar time, claims came that Ganguly was impractically included with South Indian performing artist Nagma, something he denied.

2000– 05: Ascension to Captaincy and Awards

In 2000, after the match fixing outrage by a portion of the players of the group, Ganguly was named the chief of the Indian cricket group. The choice was impelled because of Tendulkar venturing down from the situation for his wellbeing, and Ganguly being the bad habit chief at that time.[19] He started well as a skipper, driving India to an arrangement prevail upon South Africa in the five-coordinate one day arrangement and drove the Indian group to the finals of the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy. He scored two centuries, incorporating one in the last; be that as it may, New Zealand still won by four wickets. That year, Ganguly attempted his hand at province cricket vocation in England however was not fruitful.

His Lancashire colleague Andrew Flintoff believed him to be reserved and contrasted his frame of mind with that of Prince Charles. In Australia's three Test and five-coordinate ODI voyage through India in mid 2001, Ganguly caused contention by arriving late for the hurl on four events, something that fomented restricting skipper Steve Waugh. In the Fourth ODI, he made further debate by coming up short wear his playing clothing to the hurl, something thought about surprising in cricket circles. In any case, India won the Test arrangement 2– 1, finishing Australia's kept running of 16 back to back Test coordinate triumphs in the Second Test. The match saw India looking set for annihilation in the wake of surrendering a first innings lead of 274. Waugh implemented the pursue on and V. V. S. Laxman (281) and Rahul Dravid (180) batted for the whole fourth day's play to set Australia an objective of 384 on a dusty, turning wicket. The Australians were unfit to endure and turned out to be just the third group to lose a Test in the wake of authorizing the pursue on. In November 2001, Ganguly's better half Dona brought forth their little girl Sana. Amid the last match of the 2002 NatWest Series held in Lords after a shocking exhibition by partners Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif, Ganguly removed his shirt in broad daylight and wielded it noticeable all around to observe India's triumphant of the match. He was later firmly censured for discoloring the "honorable man's diversion" picture of cricket and disregarding Lord's convention. Ganguly said that he was just imitating a demonstration performed by the British all-rounder Andrew Flintoff amid a voyage through India. In 2003, India achieved the World Cup Final out of the blue since 1983, where they lost to the Australians. Ganguly had an effective competition specifically, scoring 465 keeps running at a normal of 58.12, including three centuries.

By 2004, he had made critical progress as skipper and was regarded as India's best cricket commanders by segments of the media. Nonetheless, his individual execution disintegrated amid his captaincy rule, particularly after the World Cup, the voyage through Australia in 2003 and the Pakistan arrangement in 2004. In 2004, Australia won a Test arrangement in India out of the blue since 1969. It was estimated that Ganguly was in conflict with the head of cricket in Nagpur over the kind of pitch to be utilized for the Third Test. The groundsmen conflicted with Ganguly, leaving a lot of grass on the pitch. A few specialists showed that the explanation behind this was for "resentment or retribution" against the Indian commander. At the point when Australia's remain in-commander, Adam Gilchrist, went to the hurl, he saw Rahul Dravid was holding up rather than Ganguly, abandoning him to ask Dravid where Ganguly was. Dravid couldn't give a complete answer, saying: "Goodness, who knows?"

Following aloof structure in 2004 and poor structure in 2005, he was dropped from the group in October 2005. Having been designated and dismissed in 2000, when the diversion endured a discolored notoriety because of match fixing outrages, the captaincy was passed to Dravid, his previous representative. Ganguly ruled against resigning and endeavored to make a rebound to the group. Ganguly was granted the Padma Shri in 2004, India's fourth most noteworthy non military personnel grant, in acknowledgment of his recognized commitment in the field of games. He was given the honor on 30 June 2004, by then President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

2006– 07: Comeback and Crack with Greg Chappell

In September 2005, Greg Chappell turned into the mentor of India for the voyage through Zimbabwe. Ganguly's debate with him brought about numerous features. Chappell had messaged the Board of Control for Cricket in India, expressing that Ganguly was "physically and rationally" unfit to lead India and that his "partition and guideline" conduct was harming the group. This email was spilled to the media and brought about immense reaction from Ganguly's fans. Ganguly had enrolled the help from the Indian media and inevitably the board needed to mediate and arrange a détente between the pair.

Ganguly, Chappell and the Indian group administrator for the Zimbabwe visit, Amitabh Choudhary, were approached to show up before the BCCI board of trustees, where it was accounted for that affirmation of cooperating was given by them.[citation needed] Consequently, because of his poor structure and contrasts with the mentor, Ganguly was dropped as the commander of the group, with Dravid having his spot. Chandresh Narayan, boss reporter for The Times of India, remarked that "The column with Greg Chappell just added to the puzzle, however he was experiencing a downright terrible fix at that point, his solitary score [of note] was a hundred against Zimbabwe and that didn't mean much." after ten months, amid India's visit to South Africa, Ganguly was reviewed after his center request substitutions Suresh Raina and Mohammad Kaif endured poor structure.

Following India's poor batting show in the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy and the ODI arrangement in South Africa, in which they were whitewashed 4– 0, Ganguly made his rebound to the Test group. Wasim Jaffer, Zaheer Khan and Anil Kumble had before been chosen for the one-day squad, in spite of their ongoing poor exhibitions. Many considered this to be a prosecution of mentor Greg Chappell's childhood first approach. Coming in at 37/4, Ganguly scored 83 of every a visit coordinate against the remainder of South Africa, changing his unique batting style and taking a center stump protect, bringing about India winning the match. Amid his first Test innings since his rebound, against South Africa in Johannesburg his score of 51 helped India to triumph, denoting the principal Test coordinate win for the group in South Africa. In spite of the fact that India lost the arrangement, Ganguly collected the most keeps running on the scoring diagram. After his effective Test rebound he was reviewed for the ODI group, as India played host to West Indies and Sri Lanka in consecutive ODI competitions. In his first ODI innings in just about two years, he scored a matchwinning 98.[86] He performed well in both arrangement, averaging very nearly 70 and won the Man of the Series Award against Sri Lanka.

Ganguly was designated a spot in the official group for the 2007 Cricket World Cup. He was the main scorer for India in their first round annihilation against Bangladesh. After India were thumped out of the competition in the gathering stage, there were reports of a crack between specific individuals from the Indian group and Chappell. Ganguly was claimed to have overlooked directions from the group the board to score rapidly. After Tendulkar issued an announcement saying that what hurt the group most was that "the mentor has scrutinized our disposition", Chappell chose not to recharge his agreement with the Indian group and left his post as mentor, refering to "family and individual reasons". On 12 December 2007, Ganguly scored his lady twofold century of his profession while playing against Pakistan. He scored 239 keeps running in the main innings of the third and last Test match of the arrangement. He was engaged with a 300 run association for the fifth wicket with Yuvraj Singh. Ganguly stayed productive in both Test and ODI cricket in the year 2007. He scored 1106 Test keeps running at a normal of 61.44 (with three centuries and four fifties) in 2007 to turn into the second most noteworthy run-scorer in Test matches of that year after Jacques Kallis. He was likewise the fifth most astounding run-scorer in 2007 in ODIs, where he scored 1240 keeps running at a normal of 44.28.

2008– present: International Retirement and IPL

In February 2008, Ganguly joined as the commander of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) group, possessed by Bollywood performer Shahrukh Khan, as a major aspect of the Indian Premier League (IPL). On 18 April 2008, Ganguly drove the KKR, in the IPL Twenty20 cricket coordinate. They had a 140 run triumph over Bangalore Royal Challengers (captained by Rahul Dravid and possessed by Vijay Mallya). Ganguly opened the innings with Brendan McCullum and scored 10 runs while McCullum stayed unbeaten, scoring 158 keeps running in 73 balls. On 1 May, in an amusement between the Knight Riders and the Rajasthan Royals, Ganguly made his second T20 50 years, scoring 51 keeps running off of 39 balls at a strike rate of 130.76. In his innings, Ganguly hit four 4s and two sixes, topping the scorers list for the Knight Riders.

On 7 July 2008, media revealed that Ganguly was being anticipated as a contender for the post of President of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) against his previous guide Jagmohan Dalmiya. Reports additionally recommended that he could keep running for the post of BCCI President in 2014 as East Zone's agent. Ganguly himself did not deny the reports and did not discount any such move. That year in October, Ganguly reported that the Test arrangement against Australia beginning in October 2008 would be his last and expressed "to be completely forthright, I didn't hope to be picked for this arrangement. Before coming here, [at the conference] I addressed my partners and ideally I will go out with a triumphant thump." Ganguly played in each round of the four-Test arrangement and amassed 324 keeps running at a normal of 54.00. While playing the second Test match of the arrangement in Mohali, Ganguly scored his last test century. In the last test coordinate he played at Nagpur against Australia he scored 85 and 0 in his first and second innings separately.

In May 2009, Ganguly was expelled from the captaincy of the KKR for the 2009 period of the IPL, and was supplanted by McCullum. The choice was addressed by media and different players of the group, when KKR completed at the base of the positioning table with three successes and ten misfortunes. From that point forward, Bengali TV station Zee Bangla reserved him as the host of the truth test show titled Dadagiri Unlimited. It introduced members from the 19 locale of West Bengal, who needed to respond to addresses presented by Ganguly. By August, he was named the administrator of CAB's Cricket Development Committee. The activity of the board of trustees is to get a report from the selectors toward the finish of each cricket season, survey the responsibility of the selectors and make important proposals. He played for the Ranji glass in the Bengal group in October 2009. Ganguly scored 110 in the match against Delhi and was engaged with an association of 222 keeps running with Wriddhiman Saha.

In the third period of the IPL, Ganguly was by and by given the captaincy of KKR, after the group finished at the base in the second season. The mentor John Buchanan was supplanted by Dav Whatmore. In 40 matches and 38 innings for KKR Ganguly scored 1,031 runs and took eight wickets. In the fourth period of the IPL he was marked by the Pune Warriors India, in the wake of being unsold in starting offering procedure and he made 50 keeps running of four matches and three innings. In the 2012 season he has been designated as the Captain cum coach for Pune Warriors India. On 29 October 2012, he declared that he has chosen not to play in one year from now's IPL and to resign from the diversion.

Playing style and Impacts

Ganguly remarked that David Gower was the main cricketer to draw in him to the amusement. He adored Gower's style and used to watch old recordings of him playing. Different cricketers who had an impact on him are: David Boon, Mohinder Amarnath, Kapil Dev and Allan Border. Ganguly is a left-gave batsman whose runs came fundamentally from the off-side. Debashish Dutta, creator of Sourav Ganguly, the maharaja of cricket, remarked that all through his vocation, "Ganguly played off-side shots, for example, the square cut, square drive and spread drive with complete order." Rahul Dravid has called Ganguly "...next to God on the off-side." He used to hit ground-breaking shots to the off-side on front and back foot without any difficulty. In any case, right off the bat in his profession he was not happy with the snare and force, regularly giving his wicket away with confounding such shots. He was additionally condemned for experiencing issues in taking care of short bouncers, famously misused by the Australians and South Africans. In any case, after his rebound in 2007, he worked upon these shortcomings to a huge degree.

Amrita Daityari, creator of Sourav Ganguly: the flame inside, noticed that in ODIs, where Ganguly normally opened the innings, he used to endeavor to exploit handling confinements by progressing down the pitch and hitting pace bowlers over additional spread and mid-off. She remarked: "Ganguly was famous for assaulting left-arm turn bowlers. Because of astounding eye– hand coordination, he was noted for picking the length of the ball early, descending the pitch and hitting the ball aeronautically over mid-on or midwicket, frequently for a six. In any case, he had a shortcoming in running between the wickets and making a decision about snappy singles." There were numerous occasions where Ganguly's batting accomplice was run out because of Ganguly's requiring a run, and after that sending him back while mostly down the pitch. A circumstance like this occurred in an ODI against Australia where he took a solitary when on 99, however he drifted and did not ground his bat. In spite of the fact that the bat was past the wrinkle, it was noticeable all around and he was thusly run out. Ganguly stated, "I want to watch myself hit a spread drive, to watch myself hit a hundred." Ganguly's association with previous Indian mentor John Wright has been very much reported in contemporary media, with them signifying the relationship as an "advantageous procedure". They acknowledged Wright and Ganguly for bringing out global class entertainers, through scholarly, training and logical wellness regimens. As per Dubey, Ganguly and Wright, alongside different individuals from the group like Tendulkar and Dravid, were the first to comprehend the significance of a remote mentor for the Indian cricket group and was persuaded that the household mentor has outlasted its utility. Ganguly's forceful style and Wright's significance on wellness introduced the improvement of a superior cricket group for India.

Ganguly is a right-arm medium pace bowler. He can swing and crease the ball both ways and regularly contributes with helpful wickets to break organizations. Vinod Tiwari, creator of the life story Sourav Ganguly lauded him saying "in spite of not being athletic as a defender, Ganguly has taken 100 gets in one-day Internationals. That is something to be pleased with!" However he reprimanded Ganguly's ground handling, particularly his gradualness in blocking the ball to counteract runs and his inclination to take care of business harmed amid getting the ball.

Inheritance

Creator Pradeep Mandhani remarked that in his residency somewhere in the range of 2000 and 2005, Ganguly turned into India's best Test chief. He drove his group to triumph on 21 events – multiple times more than Mohammad Azharuddin with the second most successes—and drove them for a record 49 matches—twice more than both Azharuddin and Sunil Gavaskar. Contrasted with his batting normal of 45.47 when not chief, Ganguly's Test batting normal as commander was a lower 37.66.

Insights about Ganguly demonstrate that he was the seventh Indian cricketer to have played 100 Test coordinates, the fourth most noteworthy by and large run scorer for India in Tests, and the fourth Indian to have played in more than 300 ODIs. Regarding generally speaking runs scored in ODIs, Ganguly is the second among Indians after Sachin Tendulkar (who has the most ODI runs) and the eighth by and large. He has scored 16 centuries in Test matches and 22 in ODIs. He is additionally one of just ten batsmen to score in excess of 10,000 keeps running in ODIs. Alongside Tendulkar, Ganguly has framed the best opening pair in One Day Cricket, having amassed the most elevated number of century associations (26) for the principal wicket. Together, they have scored in excess of 7000 keeps running at a normal of 48.98, and hold the world record for making most number of 50-run association in the primary wicket (44 fifties). Ganguly turned into the fourth player to cross 11,000 ODI runs, and was the quickest player to do as such in ODI cricket, after Tendulkar. Starting at 2006, he is the main Indian commander to win a Test arrangement in Pakistan (albeit two of the three Tests of that arrangement was driven by Rahul Dravid). He is additionally one of the five players on the planet to accomplish astounding treble of 10,000 runs, 100 wickets and 100 gets in ODI cricket history, the others being Tendulkar, Kallis, Sanath Jayasuriya and Tillakaratne Dilshan.

Writer Mihir Bose, in his book, The enchantment of Indian cricket: cricket and society in India. remarked that "The cricket world had gotten excessively used to the generalization of the docile Indian cricketer. Every one of that has changed under Ganguly, maybe to improve things." He credits Ganguly for not being short of assuming on liability. "He demonstrated that he can be a pioneer of a group, which has greats like Sachin and Dravid in the side, with no issues. Under Ganguly's administration, India began winning matches and competitions, already missing from the group extensively." Within a couple of long periods of his captaincy, Ganguly modified the standards of being a commander of a cricket group. In contrast to a portion of his forerunners, Ganguly was viewed as unprejudiced, non-parochial, and perpetually pushed his players to perform better. Off the field, his associations with the media, his fans, and spoilers were uncompromisingly genuine and earned him the regard of cricket devotees all over the place. In any case, alongside this regard came the reactions. Ganguly was censured as a hot-tempered man who would not tune in to other's sentiments and complied with his own tenets and guidelines. Matthew Engel, ICC sport pundit, noticed that this "turning hard of hearing" to other's sentiments would one day hurt Ganguly and that it was sheer karma that he existed on the wearing scene.

Ganguly trusted that his heritage as a skipper was that he had the capacity to assemble a legitimate Indian group. He included,

"We had the capacity to change the substance of Indian cricket. That is what I'm pleased with, on the grounds that I think we had an immense effect. Individuals used to imagine that we would essentially move over when happening of India, yet we changed the image.The group wouldn't take any poop from any opposition] Absolutely, and that originated from self-conviction that, that we had the capacity to do well outside India.

Bose remarked that Ganguly's most noteworthy inheritance lay in his impact on the more youthful and maturing age of cricketers. Ganguly felt that each youthful player should play two years of residential cricket before being chosen for universal assignments. He likewise said that each newcomer ought to be given no less than five recreations to substantiate himself. Later he clarified that being forced to bear an uncalled for ruling against him, that took steps to demolish his global cricket profession, it empowered him to comprehend the frailties of different newcomers in the group superior to his forerunners. Ganguly had constantly sponsored the impact and commitment of more youthful players of the group.

In spite of his commitments, his captaincy and training techniques went under huge examination from the press just as different researchers. Engel remarked that "He appears unapproachable to the issues that his mal-choices are making. I don't especially trust that Ganguly has an 'effing learning how to lead his group and endeavors to counter-present it with inducing boundless, angry practices inside the more youthful individuals from it. [One day] the time will come when such stun strategies will stop to work." An article on Cricinfo Magazine brought up his careless conduct.

Intriguing Facts about Sourav Ganguly: The Royal Bengal Tiger

Born on

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly was conceived on July 8, 1972 in the capital city of Calcutta (presently Kolkata), West Bengal.

The Royal epithet

Sourav, as a child was affectionately called as 'Maharaja' signifying 'Sovereign' by his folks. Afterward, amid his playing profession, famous analyst Geoffrey Boycott had titled him as 'The Prince of Calcutta.'

The lavish life

Sourav Ganguly is the most youthful child of Chandidas and Nirupa Ganguly. Sourav had a place with a wealth and wealthy family in Kolkata. His dad Chandidas maintained a prospering print business and was one of the most extravagant men in the city. Sourav's joint family home in Behala, a suburb in Southern Calcutta, has about 30 dwelling individuals with in excess of 45 rooms.

All offices available to them

An indoor multi-rec center and solid wicket was worked at their home, so he and Snehasish could rehearse the diversion.

Turns left gave to utilizes his siblings' unit

Sourav is correct given – he composes right-gave, bowls right gave and fundamentally does each and everything with his correct hand. In any case, since his sibling Snehashish was left-given, Sourav held the bat left-gave with the goal that he could then utilize his senior sibling's unit.

A Football fan on a basic level

Sourav was a tremendous football fan in his adolescence (despite everything he is!), and football was really his first love! In any case, because of Snehashish's request, Sourav was enlisted into a cricket foundation amid his class 10 occasions.

A Football fan on a fundamental level

Sourav was a colossal football fan in his youth (regardless he is!), and football was really his first love! In any case, because of Snehashish's request, Sourav was selected into a cricket institute amid his class 10 occasions.

Advisor : Delhi Capitals Franchisee

He joined as an advisor to a IPL Franchisee Delhi Capitals at February, 2019 alongwith Ricky Ponting as head coach and Mohammad Kaif as assisstant coach of the side.

Records

Sourav Ganguly's Record in International Matches

Matches Won Lost Draw Tied No Results
Test 113 37 35 41 0 -----
ODI 311 149 145 ---- 1 16

Batting and Fielding Records

Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100s 50s 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 113 188 17 7212 239 42.17 14070 51 .25 16 35 900 57 71 0
ODI 311 300 23 11363 183 41.02 15416 73.70 22 72 1122 190 100 0
Frst Class 254 399 44 15687 239 44.18 33 89 168 0
List A 437 421 43 15622 183 41.32 31 97 131 0
T20s 77 73 4 1726 91 25.01 1613 107.0 0 8 184 51 28 0

Bowling Records

Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 5w
Tests 113 99 3117 1681 32 3/28 3/37 52.53 3.23 97.4 0
ODI 311 171 4561 3849 100 5/16 5/16 38.49 5.06 45.6 2
Frst Class 254 11108 6099 167 6/46 36.52 3.29 66.5 4
List A 437 8199 6646 171 5/16 5/16 38.86 4.86 47.9 2
T20s 77 37 573 756 29 3/27 3/27 26.06 7.91 19.7 0

Test Match Career Performance By Opposition

Opposition Match Runs Ave High Score 100/50
Australia 24 1403 35.07 144 2/7
Bangladesh 5 371 61.83 100 1/3
England 12 983 57.82 136 3/5
New Zealand 8 563 46.91 125 3/2
Pakistan 12 902 47.47 239 2/4
South Africa 17 947 33.82 87 0/7
Sri Lanka 14 1064 46.26 183 3/4
Indies 12 449 32.07 75* 0/2
Zimbabwe 9 530 44.16 136 2/1

ODI Match Career Performance By Opposition

Opposition Match Runs Ave High Score 100/50
Australia 35 774 23.45 100 1 / 5
Bangladesh 10 459 57.37 135* 1 / 4
England 26 975 39.00 117 * 1 / 7
New Zealand 32 1079 35.96 153* 3 / 6
Pakistan 53 1652 35.14 141 2 / 9
South Africa 29 1313 50.50 141* 3 / 8
Sri Lanka 44 1534 40.36 183 4 / 9
Indies 27 1142 47.58 98 0 / 11
Zimbabwe 36 1367 42.71 144 3 / 7
ICC World XI 1 22 22.00 22 0 / 0
Africa XI 2 120 60.00 88 0 / 1
Bermuda 1 89 89.00 89 0 / 1
Ireland 1 73 – 73* 0 / 1
Kenya 11 588 73.50 111* 3 / 2
Namibia 1 112 – 112* 1 / 0
Netherlands 1 8 8.00 8 0 / 0
U.A.E. 1 56 56.00 56 0 / 1

Centuries Against Different Countries

Opposition Test ODI

Sri Lanka 3 4
New Zealand 3 3
Zimbabwe 2 3
England 3 1
Pakistan 2 2
Australia 2 1
South Africa – 3
Bangladesh 1 1
Kenya NA 3
Namibia NA 1
Total 16 22

Records As A Skipper

Captaincy Record in Test Matches

Venue Span Matches Won Lost Tied Draw
Home 2000–2005 21 10 3 0 8
Away 2000–2005 28 11 10 0 7
Total 2000–2005 49 21 13 0 15

Career summary as Skipper in Test Matches

Venue Span Matches Runs HS Bat Avg 100 Wkts BBI Bowl Avg Ct
Home 2000–2005 21 868 136 29.93 2 3 1/14 78.00 24
Away 2000–2005 28 1693 144 43.41 3 2 2/69 193.00 13
Total 2000–2005 49 2561 144 37.66 5 5 2/69 124.00 37

Record As Skipper in One Day Internationals

Venue Span Matches Won Lost Tied N/R
Home 2000–2005 36 18 18 0 0
Away 2000–2005 51 24 24 0 3
Neutral 1999–2005 59 34 23 0 2
Total 1999–2005 146 76 65 0 5

Career summary as Skipper in One Day Internationals

Venue Span Matches Runs HS Bat Avg 100 Wkts BBI Bowl Avg Ct
Home 2000–2005 36 1463 144 43.02 2 16 5/34 30.87 14
Away 2000–2005 51 1545 135 32.18 2 15 3/22 39.26 23
Neutral 2000–2005 60 2096 141 41.92 7 15 3/32 43.20 24
Total 2000–2005 147 5104 144 38.66 11 46 5/34 37.63 61

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