Sourav Ganguly

Sourav Ganguly was born on July8,1972.He is popularly known as Prince of Kolkata.Sourav was one of the most stylish left handed batsman that the game had seen. He holds an impressive record in one day international.Sourav made his test debut for India at Lords against England in 1996.He scored a hundred in that test.Sourav made his one day international debut against West Indies in Australia on 1992.Sourav had played many match winning knock for India. He was a good player of off side. He had scored over 10,000 runs in one day international cricket for India with 22 centuries and 72 half centuries. He had also shown a good record in test cricket. He had scored over 7,000 runs in test with 16 centuries and 36 half centuries. Sourav took the charge of captain when Indian cricket was surrounded by match fixing. He inspired the youngsters to fight for Indian cricket; under his leadership team India was formed. He was the most successful captain of India at that time. He became dada of Indian cricket after making India runners up in world cup 2003.Buy his poor form cost him down in2005.He was turned off from captaincy and then from the team. He made a dream come back in South Africa in2006 and played in world cup 2007.In world cup2007 he was most successful batsman for India though India was turned off in the group stage by Bangladesh and Srilanka.Sourav scored over thousand runs in one day international and in test in 2007.But he was again dropped from the squad in Australia on 2008 due as Dhoni was not gratified by his performance. He continued to play test cricket till October of that year. He retired in the home series played against Australia on October 2008.He had served Indian cricket for sixteen years by playing some great knocks. He is a glory in our eyes.
Bating
Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50
Tests- 113 188 17 7212 239 42.17 14070 51.25 16 35
ODIs- 311 300 23 11363 183 41.02 15416 73.70 22 72

Twenty20-31 30 2 726 91 25.92 657 110.50 0 4

Bowling
Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ
Tests 113 99 3117 1681 32 3/28 3/37 52.53 3.23
ODIs 311 171 4561 3849 100 5/16 5/16 38.49 5.06


Twenty20-31 24 417 521