daren ganga Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
daren ganga is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Daren Ganga
Born
January 14, 1979, Barrackpore, Trinidad
Age
44 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 48 | 35 | 1 | - |
Inn | 86 | 34 | 1 | - |
Runs | 2160 | 843 | 26 | - |
Avg | 25.71 | 25.55 | 26.0 | - |
SR | 38.88 | 59.62 | 83.87 | - |
HS | 135 | 71 | 26 | - |
NO | 2 | 1 | 0 | - |
100s | 3 | 0 | 0 | - |
50s | 9 | 9 | 0 | - |
4s | 284 | 69 | 3 | - |
6s | 2 | 7 | 1 | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 48 | 35 | 1 | - |
Inn | 8 | 1 | - | - |
Balls | 186 | 1 | - | - |
Runs | 106 | 4 | - | - |
Wkt | 1 | 0 | - | - |
BBI | 20 / 1 | 4 / 0 | - | - |
BBM | 20 / 1 | 4 / 0 | - | - |
Eco | 3.42 | 0.0 | - | - |
Avg | 106.0 | 0.0 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- S Ganga
- West Indies
- Trinidad
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
At 19, Daren Ganga was given his Test debut against South Africa at Durban, becoming the youngest T&T player in 35 years to make to the West Indies Test team. Struggling for consistency, Ganga was shunted in and out of the team. He finally made that breakthrough at the international level in the 2003 home series against Australia, he compiled back to back centuries, helping West Indies hold fort.
His form though tapered off on the tour to South Africa in 2004. Ganga just wheedled out 122 runs in 4 Tests before the failure against England forced the selectors to axe him. Then, Ganga fought his way back into the team on the back of leading T&T to the Carib Beer Cup triumph. He led from the front, piling on 610 runs. His new found maturity reinjected faith into selection panel as Ganga was recalled for West Indies' tour of New Zealand in 2006. Ganga finished the 3-match Test series as the second highest run-getter with 191 runs, 44 behind Chris Gayle. He followed it up with 173 runs against Pakistan including successive 80's.
With Lara hanging up his boots and Sarwan sustaining an injury, Ganga was named West Indies' captain for the tour to England. Malfunctioning with the bat, Ganga was soon jettisoned. He came back in 2008 but faltered again again in South Africa. His ODI career was no better either, which meant that his start-stop international career has reached its final stop.
However, he enjoyed considerable success with T&T until retirement in 2012.
By Deivarayan Muthu
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Daren Ganga's 2000-01 tour of Australia was rather like Mark Ramprakash's debut series: there were several characterful twenties and thirties but, as a studious opener whose limited supply of runs came mostly in the V, he could be becalmed all too easily. It wasn't until his fourth coming as an international cricketer that he really made his mark, with back-to-back centuries against the mighty Australians. All of a sudden, his phlegmatic approach became a vital counterpoint to a rejunevated Brian Lara at the other end. But his form fell away and he was dropped after the first Test against South Africa in April 2004-05. Recalled for the 2005-06 tour to New Zealand, he was the second highest run scorer in the three-Test fixture. He looked good for a third hundred - and West Indies for a rare victory - in the first Test at Auckland, but a rash stroke on 95 ruined all that and Ganga was in for flack from his critics. Indifferent innings at Wellington and Napier notwithstanding, he was retained for the series against India later that season. It proved to be a benchmark of sorts, and Ganga clearly had taken a mature step forward. His total of 344 runs in four Tests was a team high by some margin, and his 135 and unbeaten 66 in the drawn third Test in St Kitts were innings of confidence and composure. He cemented his place with back-to-back 80s in Pakistan. Touring England as the vice-captain, Ganga's position was soon elevated following Ramnaresh Sarwan's injury. Ganga, however, failed to shine with the bat and was dropped for the Natwest Series that followed. Even after being named as Trinidad & Tobago's cricketer of the year, Ganga failed to find a place in the squad for the ICC World Twenty20 and the tour of Zimbabwe before making a return to the squad for the the tour of South Africa that followed. However he had six poor innings in South Africa and was not picked by the selectors for the rest of 2008 and the majority of 2009. He continued to lead Trinidad and Tobago, and their victory in the Stanford 20/20 won them a berth in the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 in India, where Ganga's stock went up when he guided his team to the final.
Jamie Alter October 2009