Biography-Sourav Ganguly

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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Biography-M.S.Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the present captain of the Indian cricket team, was born in 1981 at Ranchi. He was made the captain of India in the year of 2007. He is known as “Mahi” by the huge number of his fans. He has proved himself as the hard-hitting batsman and one of the best captains of India.

Dhoni made the debut in the national team of India in the year of 2004. In his 5th ODI match against Pakistan, he scored 148 run which was the highest run in one ODI match performed by any Indian wicket-keeper till then. He scored a large number of runs and grabbed at the ranking one in the ODI by ICC (International Cricket Council) in the year 2005-2006. He became the captain of India cricket team during the second T20 world cup played in September 2007. His team achieved the second world cup victory under his leadership beating Pakistan in the final match.

He has played a total 50 test and 172 one-day matches in his career. His highest scores are 148 and 183 in the test and one-day matches respectively. He has 4 test centuries and 7 one-day centuries. In test, his total run is 2648. For one-day, it is 5733. His overall batting average is 39.52 in test, and 50.28 in one-day. He also played 78 Tewnty20 matches where his highest score is unbeaten 73 runs.

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Biography-Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj, the former Indian cricketer, was one of the great all-rounders. He was born in 1959 at Chandigarh and served the Indian cricket team as a captain. Under his captaincy, India won their first world cup in 1983.

He started his first test match against Pakistan in 1978 at Faisalabad. During his third test match, he scored a quick half-century playing only 33 balls. He began his ODI career in 1978 in a match against Pakistan at Quetta. In that match, he scored 13 runs and got 1 wicket giving 27 runs.

After winning the world cup, India had to face some awful defeats due to which Kapil was removed from captaincy, and Sunil Gavaskar became the captain of India in 1984 again. In the March 1985, Kapil got his captaincy back and led his team to the world cup 1987. In the semi-final match, India lost to Australia and in this way his captaincy came to an end.

He has played a total 131 test and 225 one-day matches in his career. His highest scores are 163 and 175 in the test and one-day matches respectively. He has 8 test centuries and 1 one-day centuries. In test, his total run is 5248. For one-day, it is 3783. As a bowler, he took 434 test wickets and 253 ODI wickets. He got 10 and 5 wickets 2 and 23 times respectively in test match and one time in the ODI match.

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Biography-Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan is one of the cricket players of India. He was born in 1984 at Gujrat and has been playing for the Indian national team since 2003. He was a left-arm fast-medium bowler in the early stage, but at last he involved himself as a bowling all-rounder. He made his test debut against Australia at the ground Oval in the year of 2003, at the age of 19. He only took the wicket of Matthew Hayden in that match giving 160 runs. His one-day international (ODI) career started in 2004, in a match against the same team Australia in the Tri-Nation ODI Tournament where India, Australia and Zimbabwe participated. In that match, he got no wicket giving 61 runs. He got 16 wickets in the total tournament with an average of 31 runs. He also got the award for man-of-the-match in a match against Zimbabwe after taking 4 wickets giving only 24 runs.
The starting of the year 2005 was not too potent for Pathan. He was dropped out of the team for his poor performance. At last he was called back for playing the Indian Oil Cup at Sri Lanka in August 2005 where he hunted 6 wickets.
The former coach of the Indian cricket team, Greg Chappell tried to establish him as a batsman too. He proved that also scoring 83 runs from 70 balls in the one-day international match against Sri Lanka in 2005. He also scores 93 and 83 runs in the second and third test matches respectively against Sri Lanka.

In 2007, I. Pathan became man-of-the-match in the final match of the ICC T20 World Cup 2007 against Pakistan. He took total 3 wickets in that match giving only 16 runs.

He has played a total 29 test and 107 one-day matches in his career. His highest scores are 102 and 83 in the test and one-day matches respectively. He also played 58 Tewnty20 matches where his highest score is unbeaten 91 runs. As a bowler, he took 100 test wickets and 152 ODI wickets. He got ten and five wickets two and seven times respectively in test match and one time in the ODI match

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Biography-Anil Kumble

Anil Kumble, who won India more test matches in history, was born in 1970 at Bangalore. He got the highest number of wickets as an Indian bowler in ODIs and tests. He has best bowling figure in ODI match against West Indies among all the Indian bowlers. He is also one of the two bowlers who got total 10 wickets in an innings of test cricket against Pakistan in 1999, held on Delhi. At a time, he also became the captain of the Indian test cricket team.
Kumble is the right-handed batsman and an excellent leg spinner. He has got the third number of test wickets in history and more than 300 wickets in ODI.
He started his ODI career in the Australasia Cup in 1989-90 at Sharjah against Sri Lanka. In that match, he took 1 wicket giving 42 runs. His test career began in 1990 against England at the ground Manchester where he took 3 wickets giving 105 runs in 43 overs.
He has played a total 132 test and 271 one-day matches in his career. His highest score is 110 in the test match. He has 1 test century and 5 test half-centuries. As a bowler, he took 619 test wickets and 337 ODI wickets. He got five wickets 35 times in test match and two times in the ODI match.
Kumble played the last one-day international match in 2007 at Port of Spain against Bermuda where he got 3 wickets giving 38 runs. He played the last test match against Australia in 2008 at Delhi in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy where he took 3 wickets giving 126 runs from both the innings.

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