One of Indian’s best batsman skipper ever deployed in Team India, Sourav Ganguly, who commemorates his birthday on 8 July.
Dada, as he is popularly nicknamed, led India over five years and reached the 2003 World Cup final.
He is presently the Chairman of the Board of Control for Cricket Board (BCCI). Over a decade, Ganguly has brought immense delight and pride, both on and off the field, to the Indian cricket enthusiasts.
Here’s a list of the top 10 incredible facts about Sourav Ganguly on his birthday
1. Team India rarely took a loss in a match whenever Sourav Ganguly smashed a century in a Test match having12 draws and four victories.
2. Kolkata’s sensation S Ganguly is the BCCI president as the second Indian cricketer to do so. Maharaja of Vizianagaram was the first to accomplish this in 1954. In the past, Sunil Gavaskar and Shivlal Yadav have, in particular, served as interim chairman.
3. Sourav is a right-hander – writes using the right hand, bowls. But Sourav Ganguly always batted in international cricket as a left-hander, since his brother, Snehashish, was a left-hander, to use the kit of his elderly brother.
4. Since childhood, Sourav has been an enormous soccer enthusiast. But Sourav had been enrolled in a cricket academy because of his brother’s attention. Ganguly ended up replacing his elder brother Snehashish in Bengal’s Ranji state team.
5.With 11,363 runs just behind Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli, Sourav Ganguly is the ninth most run-getter in ODI history and the third-highest scorer in Indian cricket history.
Also Read: Best Tennis Matches Of All Time: Most Epic Matches Ranked
Recommended: Sports Education Courses In India
6. The three-story restaurant procured by Ganguly is in Calcutta’s elegant town of Park Street, Sourav’s – The Food Pavilion. In 2004, Sachin launched the eatery.
7. Sourav Ganguly bagged the most number of Man of the Match (MoM) awards in ODIs consecutively. Ganguly earned these four MoM awards during the period of 4th September- 21st September in the year 1997.
8. The former Indian captain seems to be the only batsman to attain a century on his debut against England and to perish for a duck on his Final Test Match against Australia.
9. Dada is India’s finest skipper in Test Matches with an incredible winning record of eleven out of 28 games that he preceded.
10. Sourav Ganguly averages 42.17, The most noteworthy thing is that throughout his whole test career, the average never dipped below 40.