Saurav Ganguly Ex Indian Captain - biography

Famous picture of Saurav Ganguly at Lords.

Saurav Chandidas Ganguly, born 8 July 1972, in Calcutta, West Bengal, was the captain of Indian national cricket team. He is ambidextrous, a left-handed batsman and a right-handed bowler.He made his ODI debut in 1992 but his talent was noticed in India's 1996 tour of England when he scored centuries in both innings of his debut test match (an third test of the series).

He became only the third cricketer ever to score a century in his first two innings after Lawrence Rowe and Alvin Kallicharan. He scored 183 against Sri Lanka at Taunton in the 1999 cricket World Cup, the highest by an Indian in World Cup cricket.

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly also known as "Dada" is an Indian cricketer. He has led India to the World Cup 2003 finals, and holds the Indian captaincy record for the most Test victories. Ganguly is a left-handed batsman and a right-handed medium-pace bowler. He is a natural right-hander, but converted to the southpaw stance at a young age.

Ganguly is widely credited with grooming a bunch of talented youngsters like Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh. Ganguly led India all the way to the World Cup final in 2003 and later that year, in Australia, an imperious hundred at Brisbane set the tone for the series-where India gave the mighty Aussies a good run for their money.

He is the third player to cross 10,000 ODI runs and so far the fastest one to do so, after Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam Ul Haq, and reached 6000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 ODI runs milestones in least number of matches played.

SAURAV GANGULY the perfect example of the induvidual whith a great determination,he was the one who took the responsibilityof leading the indian team when everything was falling apart,he was the one who made the new indian cricket team.

Records

Test:
Scored a century on Test debut
Scored a century in each of his first two Tests
Captained India in a record 49 Test matches
Led India to a record 21 Test wins
India's most successful Test captain

ODIs:
Second fastest player to reach 10,000 ODI runs

Fastest to reach multiples of 7,000, 8,000, 9,000 ODI Runs

Holds the record, shared with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the second highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI — 183, against Sri Lanka in 1999.

Held the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for the highest first wicket partnership for India in a ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001. This record was bettered by Sri Lankan opening pair of Jayasuriya and Tharanga in 2006 at Headingly.

Was involved in the First 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid

He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive man of the match awards in ODIs.
India's most successful ODI captain.

6th on the all time list with 30 man of the match awards (Sachin Tendulkar leads with 52 awards in 369 matches)

First Indian to Score a ODI Century Against Australia in Australia