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Full Name: Sourav Chandidas Ganguly Born: July 8, 1972, Kolkata, Bengal Major teams: India, Bengal, Glamorgan, Lancashire,KKR Batting style: Left-hand bat Bowling style: Right-arm medium

Saurav Chandidas Ganguly (first name also spelt Sourav) (born 8 July 1972, in Calcutta, West Bengal) is the captain of Indian national cricket team. He is ambidextrous, a left-handed batsman and a right-handed bowler.

After a series of plays in different Indian domestic tournaments such as the Ranji and Duleep trophies, Ganguly got his big-break while playing for India on their tour of England. He scored 131 runs and cemented his place in the Indian team. Ganguly's place in the team was assured after successful performances in series against Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Australia, winning the Man of the Match awards. In the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he was involved in a partnership of 318 runs with Rahul Dravid, which remains the highest overall partnership score in the World Cup tournament history.


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.

 
Due to the match-fixing scandals in 2000 by other players of the team, and for his poor health, Indian captain Sachin Tendulkar resigned his position, and Ganguly was made the captain of the Indian cricket team. He soon received media criticism after an unsuccessful stint for county side Durham and for taking off his shirt in the final of the 2002 Natwest Trophy. He led India into the 2003 World Cup final, where they were defeated by Australia. Due to a decrease in individual performance, he was dropped from the team in the following year. Ganguly was awarded the Padma Shri in 2004, one of India's highest awards. He returned to the National team in 2006, and had successful batting displays. Around this time, he became involved in a dispute with Indian team coach Greg Chappell over several misunderstandings. Ganguly was again dropped from the team, however he was selected to play in the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

His record is good both in test and one-day cricket: 11 centuries in tests and 22 in one-dayers at an average of around 42 in both. He has scored over 9,000 runs in one-dayers. At the first class level as well as in List A limited overs cricket, he has scored over 10,000 runs with 19 first class centuries. (He has scored more centuries at the international level than in domestic cricket.) He scored 7 ODI centuries in the year 2000.

With Sachin Tendulkar, he formed what was arguably the most successful opening pair ever in one-day cricket. This pair has the highest number of century partnership (16) for the first wicket. They together have scored 5621 runs at an average of 49.30. His position as opener has now been replaced by Virender Sehwag. He is known for hitting the "big sixes". He is also a useful extra bowler as a medium pacer.

On the other hand, he is a temperamental player and has often attracted controversy. He is religious, and, some commentators have suggested, also superstitious. It appears that he makes various decisions — some trivial, such as the number on his jersey, and others important, such as batting position — based on numerological considerations.

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Sourav Ganguly's cricket career -

• Test Debut - 20 June 1996: v England
• Test matched played - 113
• ODI Debut - 11 January 1992: v West Indies
• Last Test Match - 06 Novemver 2008: v Australia
• Last ODI - 15 November 2007: v Pakistan

• Highest Runs in Test Matches - 239 v Pakistan 8 Dec 2007(Till 06/11/08)
• Highest Runs in ODI - 183 v Sri Lanka 26 May 1999 (Till 06/11/08)
• Best Bowling in Test Matches - 13.4/3 Wkts v Australia 18 Mar 1998
• Best Bowling in ODI - 10.0/5 Wkts v Pakistan 18 Sep 1997

• 3 times Man of the series awards in Test Matches
• 7 times Man of the series awards in ODI
• 6 times man of the match awards in Test Matches
• 31 times man of the match awards in ODI