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The youngest son of Chandidas and Nirupa Ganguly,Ganguly was born on 8 July 1972 in Kolkata. His fatherran a flourishing print business and was one of therichest men in Kolkata. He had a luxurious childhood and

was nicknamed the Maharaja. Though he was asked toconcentrate on his studies and not play cricket, he wasinspired to do so by his brother Snehasish Ganguly, anaccomplished left-handed batsman for Bengal. Thoughhe was actually right-handed, he batted left-handed so

that he could use his brother's equipment. After heshowed some promise as a batsman, he was enrolled in acricket academy. An indoor multi-gym and concretewicket was built at home for him and his brother, and hewould often watch cricket videos, especially those

of David Gower, his hero.

After he scored a centuryagainst the Orissa U-15 side, he was made captain of the


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January, 1992: Makes ODI debut against Australia,scores just 3 before being dropped.

June, 1996: Makes his First Come Back and Scorescentury against England at Lord's on Test debut and

follows it up with another century in the very next Testat Trent Bridge.

August, 1997: Scores his first ODI century inColombo against Sri Lanka in his 32nd match.

September, 1997: Leading scorer and wicket-taker inthe Sahara Cup as India thrash Pakistan 4-1. He scored222 runs at 55.5 and 15 wickets at 10.66. Wins fourMan-of-the-Match awards in five matches and Man ofthe Series .


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November-December, 1997: Top scorer and Man of the Series in thethree-Test home series against Sri Lanka with 392 runs at an average of 98.

May, 1999: Scores 183 in Taunton against Sri Lanka in the World Cup, then

highest ODI score by an Indian.September, 1999: Captains India for the first time in the Coca-ColaSingapore Challenge tournament, against West Indies after Tendulkar pulledout due to a sore back.

February, 2000: Named captain for the five-ODI home series againstSouth Africa after Tendulkar relinquished post.

February, 2000: Joins English county team Lancashire.

March, 2001: Led India to 2-1 win against Australia at home in a historicTest series.


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The Come Back

January 2006: Picked for the Testseries in Pakistan.

December, 2006: Picked for Testseries against South Africa, returns asleading run-getter.

January, 2007: Scores 98 in his ODIcomeback in Nagpur against West

Indies.


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Ganguly is the seventh Indian cricketer to have played100 Test matches.

He is currently the 5th highest overall run scorer forIndia in Tests.

He is the fourth Indian to have played in more than

300 One Day Internationals. In terms of overall runs scored in ODIs, Ganguly is thefourth in the world.

Ganguly has scored 15 centuries in Test matches and22 in ODIs.

He is one of only seven batsmen to score more than

10,000 runs in ODIs. Ganguly has 22 centuries in ODIs, in terms of numberof centuries in ODIs, he is only behind Sachin

Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasuriya and Ricky Ponting


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Sourav, along with Sachin Tendulkar, formed by far the mostsuccessful opening pair in One Day Cricket, having amassedthe highest number of century partnerships (26) for the firstwicket. Together, they have scored more than 7000 runs atan average of 48.98, now with Sachin he is a world record

holder for creating most no. of 50 run partnership in the firstwicket(44 fifties).

Ganguly is the fourth player to cross 11,000 ODI runs andthird player to cross 10,000 ODI runs and so far thefastest in ODI history, after SachinTendulkar. He alsoreached 6000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 ODI runs milestones inthe fewest number of matches. Sourav can bowl medium-pacers as well he is the only Indian captain to win a Testseries in Pakistan . He is also one of the 3 players in theworld to achieve amazing treble of 10,000 runs, 100 wicketsand 100 catches in ODI cricket history, the othersbeing Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya.


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Captained India in a record 49 Test

matches.Led India to a record 21 Test wins.His test average has never been less

than 40. Only The One to Achievethis.


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Hold the record of most 200+ ODI partnerships (6 times) along with SachinTendulkar .

Holds the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for most 1st wicket ODIpartnerships of 175+ runs (7 times).

Holds the record, shared with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the second highestscore by an Indian cricketer in an ODI 183, against Sri Lanka in 1999.

Held the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for the highest first wicketpartnership for India in an ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001. Thisrecord was bettered by Sri Lankan opening pair of Jayasuriya and Tharangain 2006 at Headingley.

Was involved in the first 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid. Sixth on the all time list with 31 man of the match awards. He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive man of the match awards

in ODIs. India's most successful ODI captain. First Indian to score an ODI century against Australia in Australia. Highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in

1997,1999,2000. Third in the list of hitting maximum number of sixes in ODIs.

Second in the list of highest number of centuries in a single calendar yearever. 7 centuries in 2000.


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Man of the Series awards

3 Awards in Test cricket .7 Awards in ODI cricket .

Man of the Match awards

6 Awards in Test cricket .31 Awards in ODI cricket .


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Retirement is not the end .....My God..............I am with you till The End.................................Not your Careers End.......................................Or not your life's End........................................

But till My End..................................................

NO SOURAV ......... NO CRICKET

----From The Heart Of Million Fans.......NesaN

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