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Indian Cricket Team
Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Ganguly Former Indian captain -One of the best One day cricketers in history of the game-Considered as the Best Indian captain Ever only next to Legendary Kapil Dev. Sourav Ganguly announced his retirement from Test cricket after Border Gavaskar Trophy 2008 between India and Australia. Unfortunately Sourav Ganguly-The Bengal Tiger, got out for a first ball duck in his last test innings in 4th test match against Australia at Nagpur but he has given a lot to Indian Cricket- He has given us the team which we now call Team India which has the hunger to win and beat any team.
Name
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly
Born
July 8, 1972, Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal
Teams
India,
ACC Asian XI, Bengal, Glamorgan,
Lancashire
Education of Sourav Ganguly
St Xavier's College, Kolkata (India)
Batting style
Left-hand bat
Bowling style
Right-arm medium
Career Statistics of Sourav Ganguly
Test debut England v
India at Lord's, Jun 20-24, 1996
ODI debut India v West Indies at Brisbane, Jan 11, 1992
Twenty20 debut Glamorgan v Somerset at Cardiff, Jun 22, 2005
Sourav Ganguly achievements
Sourav Ganguly took his shirt off and swing it into the air in the balcony of Lord’s after Indian won Natwest series against England in 2002.
He formed the most successful partnership along with Sachin Tendulkar in ODIs. They scored 5621 runs together at an average of over 49. They once put on 258 runs for the opening wicket
Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid had world record partnership for any wicket of 318 runs against Sri Lanka in the '99 WC. Ganguly scored 183 runs in that match.
Sourav Ganguly has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year on 5 Occassions.
He is the only captain after 20 years to lead an Indian side into the World Cup finals.
As a captain Sourav Ganguly was aggressive and showed Team Spirit.
He is Captain of Kolkata Knight Riders, Shahrukh Khan is the owner of the team
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