Sourav Chandidas Ganguly, commonly known as Sourav Ganguly was a cricketer of India cricket team and was born in 1972 at Kolkata. He was one of the most successful Indian cricket captains. Under his captaincy, Indian cricket team won 21 test matches out of 49. It was one of the best success rates among all captains to perform. He was known as “Dada” to his fans and “Maharaj” to the teammates.
Ganguly started to play cricket in his early age. He was inspired by his elder brother named Snehashish who played in the Bengal cricket team. He started his one-day cricket career in 1992 against West Indies. But in that match he just scored 3 runs. His test career began through scoring 131 runs in Lord’s ground.
He has played a total 113 test and 311 one-day matches in his career. His highest scores are 239 and 183 in the test and one-day matches respectively. He has 16 test centuries and 22 one-day centuries. In test, his total run is 7212. For one-day, it is 11363. His overall batting average is 42.17 in test, and 41.02 in one-day. He also played 58 Tewnty20 matches where his highest score is unbeaten 91 runs.
Ganguly is declared as one of India’s all-time test cricket captain. After the incident of match fixing in 2000, he became the captain of India. Under his captaincy, the cricket team of India reached the final of the world cup in 2003. He led his team to 146 one-day international matches, where his team won 76 times. He got the Padma Shri award in the year of 2004.
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