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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 |
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
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
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
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