sourav ganguly Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
sourav ganguly is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly
Born
July 08, 1972, Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal
Age
51 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Batter
Height
5ft 11in
Education
St Xavier's College
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 113 | 311 | - | 59 |
Inn | 188 | 300 | - | 56 |
Runs | 7212 | 11363 | - | 1349 |
Avg | 42.18 | 40.73 | - | 25.45 |
SR | 51.26 | 73.71 | - | 106.81 |
HS | 239 | 183 | - | 91 |
NO | 17 | 21 | - | 3 |
100s | 16 | 22 | - | 0 |
50s | 35 | 72 | - | 7 |
4s | 900 | 1122 | - | 137 |
6s | 57 | 190 | - | 42 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 113 | 311 | - | 59 |
Inn | 99 | 171 | - | 20 |
Balls | 3117 | 4561 | - | 276 |
Runs | 1681 | 3849 | - | 363 |
Wkt | 32 | 100 | - | 10 |
BBI | 28 / 3 | 16 / 5 | - | 21 / - |
BBM | 37 / 3 | 16 / 5 | - | 21 / - |
Eco | 3.24 | 5.06 | - | 7.89 |
Avg | 52.53 | 38.49 | - | 36.3 |
5W | 0 | 2 | - | 0 |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- Snehasish C Ganguly
- India
- Asia XI
- Bengal
- East Zone
- Glamorgan
- India Under-19s
- Kolkata Knight Riders
- Lancashire
- Marylebone Cricket Club
- Northamptonshire
- Pune Warriors
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
For all his success as captain his batting form took a turn for the worse during his time as captain. Ganguly burst into collective memory in 1996 with back-to-back Test hundreds in England. Subsequently he started to open the innings along with Sachin Tendulkar in ODIs. The duo formed what was arguably the most dangerous opening partnerships in ODI cricket history but his success in the shorter format did not translate in an equal measure in tests. Ganguly was worked over by the bowlers in the longer format and his deficiency against short pitched bowling was something that was picked up by bowlers and captains the world over. This was just the beginning of his problems though.
In 2005 Greg Chappell took over as India's coach from John Wright. The relationship between the two strongly opinionated people cracked as time went by. It came out into the open when Chappell's dismissive mail to the BCCI criticising the then captain's ability to lead the side was leaked to the media. A hurt Ganguly threatened to leave the tour midway and had to be pacified by the senior members of the team to continue on with the tour. His poor batting form did not help his cause either and Ganguly had very little public support. He had not scored a ton in more than two years. The long drawn drama ended when Ganguly was finally dropped from the national team and Rahul Dravid was named as his successor. He continued to be on and off in the team for a while but failed to cement his place. He got another chance on the tour to South Africa in 2006 after he was recalled to add some experience to a team that had faced a humiliating exit in the just concluded Champions trophy.
Relieved off the pressure of captaincy and coming back after a while Ganguly was hungry for runs that could restore his reputation. He went about his batting in an uncharacteristically calm manner and ended up as the highest run scorer in the series. He found his mojo in the ODIs too and his prolific run scoring in 2007 earned him a place in the highest run-getters of 2007 just behind Jacques Kallis. His ODI performances were on an upswing too after earning a Man of the series award against Sri Lanka. This was also the year when Ganguly recorded his career best of 239 against Pakistan in a Test in Bangalore. These performances however failed to earn him a spot in the CB series in Australia in 2008 when the selectors opted for a young team with an eye on the future. His form dipped once again as he failed to produce the big scores in a series against Sri Lanka and questions were raised once more regarding his inclusion for Australia's tour. Ganguly answered the questions by choosing to retire immediately after the Australia series. He was given an emotional farewell with the captain MS Dhoni handing him over the reins for a while in the fag end of his last Test in Nagpur in 2008.
Ganguly retains his magnetic ability to attract attention much like his playing days when things like him waving his shirt on the Lord's balcony, his coming late for the toss etc grabbed headlines. He has also taken a new avatar as a TV analyst and commentator but he remained an active player in the domestic circuit even three years after his retirement and played both in the Ranji trophy and the IPL with sporadic success until 2012.
The Government of West Bengal honoured Ganguly with the Banga Bibhushan Award on 20 May 2013. He was also awarded the Padma Shri, one of the highest civilian awards in India, in 2004.
By Ganesh Chandrasekaran
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
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 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 continued his fine run in England, where he finished as the second highest scorer in Tests, and went on to slam back-to-back hundreds against Pakistan at home, the second of which was a glorious 239 in Bangalore. Ganguly was surprisingly omitted from India's ODI squad for the CB Series in Australia and has been out of contention in the one-day squad since. After a poor Test series in Sri Lanka, there were reports of him considering retirement but he was given a lifeline in the Tests against Australia at home. Two days before the first Test, he said the series would be his last.