Sourav Ganguly is one of the most important batting pillars in Indian batting trio (Sachin-Sourav-Dravid). He is also the most successful captain of the Indian national cricket team.
1. His full name is Sourav Chandidas Ganguly.
2. He was born in July 8, 1972,
3. His current age is now 35 years 154 days.
4. Sourav married Dona Ganguly.
5. Ganguly is the first left-handed batsman and a right-handed medium-pace bowler.
6. He is naturally right-handed batsman but the reason of his becoming left-handed to use the equipments of his elder brother Snehasish.
7. Sourav lives in a joint family. His family member is 50 including him.
8. His home in Behala, Kolkata has 48 rooms and his family owns 32 cars.
9. Sourav and Sachin are one of the most successful opening pair ever in one-day cricket (ODI).
10. Sourav never thought to be a cricketer. And his first chosen game was not cricket. Even today, he would rather watch football than cricket on TV.
11. Sourav Ganguly wanted to be a footballer and he continued his football playing till his age of 13 but he took cricket as his elder brother was a cricketer.
12. His favorite position in football is ‘striking’.
13. Sourav maintains a diary in Bengali.
14. Sourav is a very religious person and he always pray before every match.
15. Sourav is called Bengal Tiger, Prince of Calcutta, and Lord Snooty by his opponents and his team mates are called him ‘Dada’ affectionately.
16. Ganguly was the captain of
17. Sourav Ganguly made his One Day International (ODI) debut for
18. In his debut match he scored only 3 runs off facing 13 balls.
19. His poor performance left him out from
20. He made his Test debut at Lord’s against
21. He scored hundred in his debut match against
22. He became only the third cricketer to score a century on his debut match at Lord’s after Harry Graham and John Hampshire.
23. In 1997 Ganguly scored his maiden century against
24. His best bowling in ODI is 5/16 off 10 overs.
25. After a barren run in Test cricket his form returned at the end of the year with three centuries in four Tests all against
26. In 1999 world cup Ganguly scored 183 runs against
27. He is the second fastest player to reach 10,000 and 11,000 ODI runs.
28. He captained
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30. He is the seventh Indian batsmen to score 6000 Test runs.
31. He made a record of most 200+ ODI partnerships along with Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting.
32. He also made a record of 300 runs Partnership in 5th wicket along with Yuvraj Singh.
33. He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive ‘Man of the match’ awards in ODIs.
34. He is the most successful OID captain in
35. Interesting thing is that he is the first Indian who scored an ODI century against
36. His career best Test score is 239 against
37. He had to face 362 balls where he hit 30 fours and 2 sixes.
38. Sourav got ‘Man of the series’ 2 times in Test and 7 times in ODI.
39. He got ‘Man of the match’ award 4 times in Test and 31 times in ODI.
40. Sourav earns around 7 crores a year just from endorsement and charges 1 crore for each advertisement.
41. Sourav is the third highest OID scorer in the
42. Ganguly has the highest Test and ODI aggregate of any left-handed batsman
43. He also led
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45. He was 20 year old boy when he debut in ODI cricket.
46. Ganguly is only the third Indian Test batsmen to maintain a career average that never dipped below 40 runs per innings for his entire Test career.
47. Sourav also record along with Sachin Tendulkar the highest 1st wicket ODI partnership.
48. He is the third batsman in the list of hitting maximum number of sixes in ODI. He hit 190 sixes in 311 ODI matches.
49. Sourav ans Sachin scored highest 25 times 100 runs partnership in 1 wicket in ODI. The nearest competitor is Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden pair they scored 17 times in 1st wicket.
50. Sourav eats only vegetarian food on Tuesdays and Saturdays.Enjoyed reading- Why not subscribe to the feed of the blog?
3 comments:
I personally admire Dada as the best captain of Indian cricket team. The Killer Instinct which Dada has infused in our cricketr's blood is the factor responsible for today's successful Indian team.
i love ganguly till my life time
i missed you . after his retieredment i did't watched single match ...............
BHARATH KUMAR GS BANGLORE
Ganguly is the best caption of India
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