ONE DAY CRICKET
One-Day CricketRuns Opponent Venue Year Result113 Sri Lanka Colombo (RPS) 1997/98 Sri Lanka124 Pakistan Dhaka 1997/98 India105 New Zealand Sharjah 1997/98 India109 Sri Lanka Colombo (RPS) 1997/98 India107* Zimbabwe Bulawayo 1998/99 India130* Sri Lanka Nagpur 1998/99 India183 Sri Lanka Taunton 1999/00 India139 Zimbabwe Nairobi 1999/00 India153* New Zealand Gwalior 1999/00 India100 Australia Melbourne 1999/00 Australia141 Pakistan Adelaide 1999/00 India105* South Africa Jamshedpur 1999/00 India135* Bangladesh Dhaka 1999/00 India141* South Africa Nairobi (Gymk) 2000/01 India117 New Zealand Nairobi (Gymk)2000/01 New Zealand144 Zimbabwe Ahmedabad 2000/01 India127 South Africa Johannesburg 2001/02 South Africa111 Kenya Paarl 2001/02 India117* England Colombo (RPS) 2002/03 India112* Namibia Pietermaritzburg 2002/03 India107* Kenya Cape Town 2002/03 India111* Kenya Durban 2002/03 India
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
DADA'S NICKNAMES
Ganguly has been nicknamed Bengal Tiger, Prince of Calcutta, Lord Snooty by his opponents, and affectionately Dada (which means elder brother in Bengali) by his team-mates.
DADA'S BEST FIVE INNINGS
1.183 vs SL(taunton)-1999
2.144 vs aus(brisbane)-2003
3.120+ vs PAK(dhaka)-1998
4.140+ vs SA(NAIROBI,2000 champions trophy)
5.127 vs SA(in south africa 2001 series.though india lost the match).ganguly had belted 5 sixes.
2.144 vs aus(brisbane)-2003
3.120+ vs PAK(dhaka)-1998
4.140+ vs SA(NAIROBI,2000 champions trophy)
5.127 vs SA(in south africa 2001 series.though india lost the match).ganguly had belted 5 sixes.
SARAV DADA GANGULY RECORDS
Test
* Scored a century on Test debut
* Scored a century in each of his first two Tests
* Captained India in a record 49 Test matches
* Led India to a record 21 Test wins
ODIs
* Second fastest player to reach 10,000, 11,000 ODI runs
* Fastest to reach multiples of 7,000, 8,000, 9,000 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 Sachin Tendulkar, 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.
* Scored a century on Test debut
* Scored a century in each of his first two Tests
* Captained India in a record 49 Test matches
* Led India to a record 21 Test wins
ODIs
* Second fastest player to reach 10,000, 11,000 ODI runs
* Fastest to reach multiples of 7,000, 8,000, 9,000 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 Sachin Tendulkar, 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.
BENGAL TIGER("DADA")
Some felt he couldn't play the bouncer, others swore that he was God on the off-side; some laughed at his lack of athleticism, others took immense pride in his ability to galvanise a side. Sourav Ganguly's ability to polarise opinion led to one of the most fascinating dramas in Indian cricket. Yet, nobody can dispute that he was India's most successful Test captain - forging a winning unit from a bunch of talented, but directionless, individuals - and nobody can argue about him being one of the greatest one-day batsmen of all time. Despite being a batsman who combined grace with surgical precision in his strokeplay, his career had spluttered to a standstill before being resurrected by a scintillating hundred on debut at Lord's in 1996. Later that year, he was promoted to the top of the order in ODIs and, along with Sachin Tendulkar, formed one of the most destructive opening pairs in history.When he took over the captaincy after the match-fixing exposes in 2000, he quickly proved to be a tough, intuitive and uncompromising leader. Under his stewardship India started winning Test matches away, and put together a splendid streak that took them all the way to the World Cup final in 2003. Later that year, in Australia, an unexpected and incandescent hundred at Brisbane set the tone for the series - Steve Waugh's last - where India fought the world's best team to a standstill. Victory in Pakistan turned him into a cult figure but instead of being a springboard for greater things, it was the peak of a slippery slope.
The beginning of the end came in 2004 at Nagpur - when his last-minute withdrawal played a part in Australia clinching the series - and things went pear shaped when his loss of personal form coincided with India's insipid ODI performances. Breaking point was reached when his differences with Greg Chappell leaked into public domain and his career was in jeopardy when India began their remarkable revival under Rahul Dravid. His gritty 30s at Karachi, when India succumbed to a humiliating defeat in early 2006, weren't enough for him to retain his spot and some felt he would never get another chance. Others, as always, thought otherwise and they were proved right when he was included in the Test squad for the away series in South Africa in 2006-2007. He ended as the highest Indian run-scorer in that series and capped his fairytale comeback with four half-centuries on his return to ODIs. He managed two fifties in three World Cup games, in what was a forgettable campaign for India, and was rested for the folowing tour to Bangladesh
The beginning of the end came in 2004 at Nagpur - when his last-minute withdrawal played a part in Australia clinching the series - and things went pear shaped when his loss of personal form coincided with India's insipid ODI performances. Breaking point was reached when his differences with Greg Chappell leaked into public domain and his career was in jeopardy when India began their remarkable revival under Rahul Dravid. His gritty 30s at Karachi, when India succumbed to a humiliating defeat in early 2006, weren't enough for him to retain his spot and some felt he would never get another chance. Others, as always, thought otherwise and they were proved right when he was included in the Test squad for the away series in South Africa in 2006-2007. He ended as the highest Indian run-scorer in that series and capped his fairytale comeback with four half-centuries on his return to ODIs. He managed two fifties in three World Cup games, in what was a forgettable campaign for India, and was rested for the folowing tour to Bangladesh
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