Sourav Ganguly started his sports life with football
(soccer). Till the age of 13, he was active football player. he also started his
cricket career in the lines of his elder brother Snehasish C Ganguly.
1.Basic information about Sourav Ganguly
* Complete name :
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (Sourav Ganguly)
* Nick name :
“Bengal Tiger, Prince of Calcutta, Lord Snooty and Dada”
* Date of Birth : July 8th, 1972
* Place of birth :
Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal, India
* Major teams :
India, Asian Cricket Council XI, Benggal, Glamorgan, and Lancashire
* Batting style : Left-hand bat
* Bowling style : Right-arm medium
* Favourite ground : Sydney Cricket Ground
* Current position in Indian Cricket team
:
Former Captain, batsman, bowler and fielder
* Best bowling performance in : ODI 5/16
* Best bowling performance in Test : 3/37
2.Education of Sourav Ganguly
* St Xavier's College, Kolkata (India)
3.Hobbies of Sourav Ganguly
* Listening to music
4.Coach and mentor of Sourav Ganguly
a. NA
5.Professional idol of Sourav Ganguly
* NA
6.Family life and Personal life of Sourav Ganguly
* Father’s Name : Chandidas Ganguly
* Mothers’ Name : Nirupa Ganguly
* Siblings (brother) : Snehasish
C Ganguly
* Wife’s name : Dona Ganguly
* Daughter’s Name : Sana Ganguly
7.Love life of Sourav Ganguly
* A childhood friend and neighbour Dona was his first love.
Ultimately at the age of 23, against the wishes of parents,
Sourav Ganguly got married to Dona in 1996.
8.Leadership qualities of Sourav Ganguly
* Aggressive
* Leading from front
* Team spirit
9.Domestic/first class debut of Sourav Ganguly
* Sourav Ganguly played his domestic cricket
debut match for West Bengal in 1989-00.
10. ODI debut of Sourav Ganguly
* Jan, 1992, v West Indies at Brisbane
11. Test debut of Sourav Ganguly
* June 1996, Vs at Lord's (Sourav Ganguly scored century
in his first test match and was the man of the match for the same.
12. Twenty20 debut of Sourav Ganguly
* NA
13. Career highlights of Sourav Ganguly
a. Performance in Batting of Sourav Ganguly
Batting
Performance ------ ODIs matches -----------Test Matches
Matches ---------------------- 303 ----------------------- 96
Innings ---------------------- 292 ---------------------- 155
Not Out------------------------ 23 ----------------------- 14
Runs------------------------ 11147 --------------------- 5812
Average----------------------- 41 ------------------------ 41
Strike Rate ------------------ 74 -------------------------50
100's-------------------------- 22 ------------------------13
50's--------------------------- 71 ------------------------ 29
Highest ScoreHS)--------- 183------------------------- 173
b. Bowling performance of Sourav Ganguly
Bowling
Performance --- ODIs matches ------- Test Matches
Match--------------------- 303 ------------------ 96
Balls--------------------- 4459----------------- 2708
Runs----------------------- 3734----------------- 1506
Wickets---------------------- 99 ------------------- 28
Best ------------------------ 5/16 ---------------- 3/37
14. Major controversies associated with Sourav Ganguly
* Greg Chappell and Ganguly:
Sourav Ganguly had long lasting and majot controversy with
Greg Chappell. It led to his removal from the captaincy of Indian
cricket team and finally the Indian cricket team.
He was out of team for 10 months.
* Shirt take off at Lord’s:
Sourav Ganguly took his shirt off and swing it into the
air in the balcony of Lord’s after Indian won Natwest
series against England in 2002.
* and was was awarded a Ferrari as a gift in 2002
after he equaled maximum test century record of 29 held by
Don Bradman. Later it led to public controvery and even the
Finance bill was changed. However Tendulkar paid the custom charges.
* Arrogance during Australian cricket tour:
Sourav Ganguly, in the first ODI match series against Australia in
1992 was found to be arrogant and was dropped from the Indian cricket
team.
15. Interesting facts about Sourav Ganguly
* Sourav Ganguly family is among the five richest families
in Kolkata.
* Sourav Ganguly was a typical Cancerian,
Sourav was very mischievous as a child. He was petrified of dogs as a
kid!
* When Sourav was young, his parents thought to
make him an engineer or a doctor!
* Sourav is a natural right hander and does everything,
except bat with his right hand. Sourav learned to play with his
left hand from his elder brother, Snehasish, from whom
he learned to play cricket.
* Sourav was first selected in the Bengal Ranji team,
at the expense of his brother, Snehashish.
* His home in Behala, Kolkata has 48 rooms and his
family owns 32 cars (wow, that's a lot)!
* There is an apartment complex in Kolkata,
India which is named after Sourav. It is called the ‘Sourav Housing
Complex.
* Sourav’s first love was not cricket. In fact, it
was football
and he admits, that even today, he’d rather watch football than
cricket on TV. Sourav wanted to be a football player, but he took
up cricket because his elder brother was a cricketer.
* Sourav maintains a diary in Bengali. Also he is very
religious person and prays before every match.
* Following Tendulkar's footsteps, Sourav opened a
three-storey restaurant, Sourav's - The Food Pavilion in
Calcutta's posh Park Street inaugurated by Sachin Tendulkar in 2004.
* Sourav is is very fond of Alu Posto and Chingri Macher
Malaikari, both typically Bengali dishes.
* It is Dada's dream to bring Reliance's Anil Ambani
and Sahara's Subrato Roy to Kolkata.
* India have never lost a Test match in which Sourav scored
a century.
* Sourav still lives in a joint family that has over 50
members.
* After playing in two or three ODIs, Sourav was
dropped from the Indian side, because of his “arrogant attitude".
16. History of man of match and
man of the series won by Sourav Ganguly
* Sourav Ganguly was 31 times awarded man of the match
in test match cricket.
* Sourav Ganguly was 4 times awarded man of the match in
test match cricket.
* Sourav Ganguly was 7 times awarded man of the
series in ODI cricket and was 2 times awarded man of the series in ODI
cricket
17. Major achievement of
Sourav Ganguly in ODI cricket matches
* Second fastest player to reach 11,000 ODI runs
* Holds the record, shared with Mahendra Singh Dhoni,
for the second highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI —
183, against Sri Lanka in 1999.
* Held the record, shared with Sourav Ganguly,
for the highest first wicket partnership for India in a ODI match, 258,
against Kenya in 2001. This record was bettered by Sri Lankan
opening pair of Jayasuriya and Tharanga in 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 a ODI century against Australia
in Australia.
* Second fastest after Viv Richards to reach 6,000 ODI Runs
in 147 Innings and Sachin Tendulkar to 10,000 in 263 Innings
18. Major achievement of
Sourav Ganguly in Test cricket matches
* Scored a century on Test debut and one of 3 batsman who
made tons in their 1st two Test innings and his 131 still remains the
highest by any batsman on his debut at Lord’s.
* Scored a century in each of his first two Tests
* Ganguly was only the 3rd batsman in the world to
score a century on debut at Lord's.
* Most successful captain of Indian cricket team so far.
Led India to a record 21 Test wins
19. Captaincy record of Sourav Ganguly
* Captained India in a record 49 Test matches.
* Most successful captain of Indian cricket team so far.
Led India to a record 21 Test wins
20. Major Endorsements by Sourav Ganguly
* Puma
* Chirag Computers
* AIRTEL
* Standard Chartered
* Emami
* ESPN
* TATA Indicom
* Pogo Potato Chips
* Hero Honda
* Britannia Tiger Biscuits
* LG
* Pepsi
* Unicef
* Reid and Taylor
* Sahara
* West Bengal's IT Industry
* Indian Tea
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