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Full name Sourav Chandidas Ganguly
Born July 8, 1972, Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal
Current age 33 years 6 days
Major teams India, ACC Asian XI, Bengal, Glamorgan, Lancashire
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
st
Tests 82 133 12 4949 173 40.90 10011 49.43 11 25 638 41 56 0
ODIs 271 262 20 9967 183 41.18 13440 74.15 22 59 972 168 94 0
First-class 191 298 37 11485 200* 44.00 22 68 141 0
List A 365 351 37 13244 183 42.17 31 75 120 0
Twenty-20 6 5 0 114 36 22.80 101 112.87 0 0 1 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 82 2324 1294 25 3/28 3/37 51.75 3.34 92.95 0 0 0
ODIs 271 4063 3408 93 5/16 5/16 36.64 5.03 43.68 1 2 0
First-class 191 8496 4868 125 6/46 38.94 3.43 67.96 3 0
List A 365 6886 5549 156 5/16 5/16 35.57 4.83 44.14 4 2 0
Twenty-20 6 78 104 5 3/27 3/27 20.80 8.00 15.59 0 0 0
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Test debut England v India at Lord's - Jun 20-24, 1996 scorecard
Last Test India v Pakistan at Bangalore - Mar 24-28, 2005 scorecard
ODI debut India v West Indies at Brisbane - Jan 11, 1992 scorecard
Last ODI India v Pakistan at Ahmedabad - Apr 12, 2005 scorecard
First-class span 1989/90 - 2005
List A span 1989/90 - 2005
Twenty-20 span 2005
Victory in Pakistan - India's first away from home
in 11 years - made Sourav Ganguly India's most successful Test
captain ever, completing a remarkable turnaround for a man who was
summarily jettisoned after playing only a bit-part role on his first
tour of Australia in 1991-92. And it was in Australia that his
leadership scaled new heights a dozen years later, as a brilliant
century in the opening Test at Brisbane set the tone for a series -
Steve Waugh's last - where India fought the world's best team to a
standstill. Ganguly combines amazing grace and surgical precision in
his strokeplay, especially on the off side, but his career had
spluttered to a standstill before being resurrected by a
scintillating hundred on debut at Lord's in 1996. When he took over
the captaincy after the match-fixing exposes in 2000, he quickly
proved to be a tough, intuitive and uncompromising leader, traits
best illustrated in the historic series against Australia in 2001,
when he made light of personal travails to lead India to a famous
victory. Under his stewardship, with John Wright providing inputs
off the field, India started winning Test matches away, and put
together a splendid eight-match winning streak that took them all
the way to the World Cup final in 2003. Despite having been his
team's most consistent one-day batsmen over the previous three
seasons, he also relinquished the opening slot to accomodate
Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar, and several gutsy efforts in
Test cricket were none-too-subtle reminders to critics who insisted
that he was deeply vulnerable against the short ball. Effective with
his medium-pace on seaming tracks, Ganguly will most be remembered
though for having forged a winning unit from a bunch of talented,
but directionless, individuals. |
