Saurav Ganguly- The prince of Kolkata

PRINCE OF CALCUTTA

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•D.O.B -8TH JULY 1972 in Calcutta•Youngest son of Chandidas and Nirupa Ganguly•One of the richest family of Calcutta•Flourishing Print business •Knicked name as “Maharaja”•1ST Love was “Soccer”

INSPIRATION

Elder brother Snehasish Ganguly was an established player of West

bengal Backed Sourav’s decision ,to be a

cricketer Was enrolled into cricket coaching

camp when he was in tenth grade Despite being a right handed , learnt to

bat left handed As he showed promise , was enrolled in

a cricket academy

EARLY SUCCESS N HICK UPS Was made Captain of “

St Xavier's School's cricket team”,after he smashed a hundread against orissa u-15 side

At the same time he was perceived “arrogant” by his teammates

Several times refused to do d duties of a “12th” man

His caliber gave him a chance to make his “1st class debut” for bengal in 1989

INTERNATIONAL ARENA Made ODI debut vs WI on 11jan 1992 n made 3 Terrific Ranji seasons: 1993-94 n 1994-95 Followed by 171 in 1995-96 in Duleep trophy 1996 : Called back to National side vs England LORD’s : 131 ,3rd cricketer to achieve such feat Tent Bridge : 136 $ 48 Eloped with childhood sweetheart Dona Roy Wedding was held in feb 1997

DAWN OF ANOTHER LIFE(1997) Maiden ODI century

(113) vs Sri Lanka Consecutive four

MOM in Sahara cup vs PAK

3 test 100’s vs SL later in the year

Century vs PAK in final’s of Asia cup as India chased down the record total of 316 in 1998

BIG MATCH PLAYER 1999 WC : 183 vs SL , 318 runs stand

with Dravid , world record in WC history With 5 centuries in the 1999 season , he

topped the ICC ODI ratings

BIG STAGE : CAPTAINCY N ACCOLADES After match fixing scandals in 2000 Impressive start defeating SA in 5ODI

series Taking team to finals of ICC knockout

cup Also , scored 100’s in semis n finals

FEARLESS N AGGRESSIVE 2001 : Steve waugh was made to

wait for 4 occasions for toss in India India defeated ozz 2-1 in test series

after being down by 1 match 2002 Natwest series :india chased

down a mammoth total of 326, courtesy yuvi n kaif

2003 WC: India reached Finals Dada scoring 3 hundreads in the WC

with 465 runs at an average of 58

DOWNFALL OF THE PRINCE Own form dropped in series against

Australia in 2003 n Pakistan in 2004 Australia won a test series in India in

2004 for the 1st time since 1969 Oct 2005 : had rifts with new coach

Greg Chappel during Zimbabwe tour Sep 2005 : he was dropped from

national side for his poor run in both forms of the game

DOWN BUT NOT OUT YET August 2006 : Following India’s poor run

in ICC champion’s trophy n ODI series in SA , DADA was called back for test series

Was the highest run accumulator in the series

Due to his GUTSY comeback , he was recalled in the ODI squad

Dada was the highest run getter against WI n SL in home series n winning MOS award against SL averaging 70

12 Dec2007: maiden double century vs PAk

RETIREMENT OCT2008: He

decided to quit all forms of international cricket after the series vs ozz

He amassed 324 runs with an average of 54 n India regained the BORDER-GAVASKAR trophy, winning series 2-0

FACTS N HIGHLIGHTS:

GREATEST CAPTAIN OF INDIA