Sourav Ganguly Birthday: Indian cricket’s ‘Dada’ Sourav Ganguly started his journey like this, career ruined by a mistake

Ganguly was born on 8 July 1972 in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal. His father’s name was Chandidas Ganguly and mother’s name was Nirupa Ganguly. Apart from this, the name of his elder brother was Snehasish Ganguly. While his wife’s name is Dona Ganguly and daughter’s name is Sana. Sourav Ganguly’s father Chandidas was a successful businessman.

Sourav Ganguly introduced his talent from under-19 cricket to the senior team. Let us tell you that during his captaincy in the year 2003, Team India reached the final of the ODI World Cup. During this, his dispute with coach Greg Chappell was also in the limelight. Because of which he was dropped from the team and thus his entire career was ruined. Sourav Ganguly’s fans in the cricket world affectionately call him ‘Dada’. Under the leadership of Ganguly, the Indian team won many historic matches. Under his captaincy, the Indian team won the ODI tournament in Australia. Then also captured the Natwest Trophy in England.

After this, in the year 2005, the Indian team defeated Pakistan in the Test series. In the year 2002, the Zimbabwe team came on an Indian tour. During this, the opposition team got a target of 275 runs to win in Faridabad. At the same time, the wicket-keeper batsman of the opposition team, Douglas Marlier, was walking in his form. Zimbabwe’s team needed 5 runs in the last 4 balls with one wicket left. Then as a strategy, Pamelo Bangwa came to the field with water from the dressing room. But instead of giving water to the players, he started talking on the field. Sourav Ganguly was very angry on this matter. Due to this, he made both the cricketers batting in the field stand away.

Sourav Ganguly did not forget to take his revenge even in the field. Let us inform that the final match of the NatWest Series was being played at the historic cricket ground Lord’s. Only when the Indian team won the match by 2 wickets, Ganguly took off his jersey and started celebrating by waving it in the air. No one can forget this celebration of his. When Ganguly was asked about this, he said that he did not want to do so, but all-rounder player Andrew Flintoff celebrated by taking off his jersey on the Indian tour. In such a situation, Ganguly also wanted to answer him in this way.

For the Indian team, Sourav Ganguly has scored 18575 runs while playing 424 matches in international cricket. Apart from this, Ganguly took 132 wickets in these matches. While playing 113 matches in Test cricket, Ganguly scored 7212 runs in 188 innings. Apart from this, in ODIs, he has scored 11,363 runs at an average of 41.0 while playing 311 matches. Please tell that Sourav Ganguly has recorded 32 wickets in Test cricket and 100 wickets in ODIs.