Happy Birthday : Sourav Ganguly Turns 49

Sourav Ganguly, the former India skipper, the productive ODI opener, and the current BCCI president turns 48 on Wednesday. With 11363 runs and 22 ODI hundreds to his name, Ganguly goes down as one of India’s best opening batsmen that has ever been created by Indian cricket. Aside from his batting records, Ganguly is likewise hailed as probably the best commander of Indian Cricket crew and is regularly credited for upsetting the group in mid 2000s. Under his administration, India proceeded to beat Australia in Test arrangement in 2001, beat England at Lord’s to win 2002 Natwest Trophy, arrived at 2003 ODI World Cup last, drew against England in Test arrangement in 2004, and even vanquished Pakistan in a Test arrangement in 2005.

Ganguly was consistently a natural skipper. Laxman was the main Indian batsman who took a gander calm against the Australian assault in the principal innings of the popular Kolkata Test in 2001. India were approached to follow on as ahead of schedule as Day 3 and Ganguly chose to advance Laxman at No.3 instead of Rahul Dravid. The move did some incredible things for both as both Dravid and Laxman batted through Day 4 with last enlisting 281 – the then most noteworthy score by an Indian to set up an impossible win on Day 5 which was finished by a rampaging Harbhajan Singh. The success shut down Australia’s 16-coordinate series of wins and India at that point went to win the last Test at Chennai to take the arrangement 2-1.

Sourav Ganguly is the man answerable for giving Indian cricket MS Dhoni. At the point when selectors were in a fix with respect to which wicketkeeper to pick for India’s ODI arrangement against Bangladesh in 2004, it was Ganguly’s assertion that at last got Dhoni in the Indian group. It was under Ganguly that Dhoni got his first break – a batting advancement – and he guaranteed the open door was not squandered by crushing a productive 148 against Pakistan in simply his fifth innings.