Saurav Ganguly has already announced his retirement from both Domestic and International Cricket but he will play 20-20 Indian Premere League 2009. To know more about Saurav ganguly’s Retirement and his records, Click here

Saurav Ganguly is a left-handed batsman but a right-handed medium-pace bowler. Very few people know that Saurav is naturally right-handed.

Saurav Ganguly has been so many nicknamed like Bengal Tiger, Prince of Calcutta, Lord Snooty by his opponents, and affectionately Dada (which means elder brother in Bengali) by his team-mates.

Ganguly went on to become the captain of the Indian cricket team from 2000 to 2005. He led India to the 2003 World Cup finals, and holds the Indian captaincy record for the most Test victories.

Comeback!!!

Ganguly was out of the team for almost one year but as he is known as Tiger he fought well and in November 2006, Ganguly was again selected by the national board of selectors, chaired by Dilip Vengsarkar, in the team for the three-Test series against South Africa. The decision to include Saurav was taken after Indian Team under Rahul Dravid Captaincy could not reach even the Semi-finals of the Champions Trophy, which was held in India, as well as losing the opening three games of an ODI series with South Africa. The selectors decided to back experience in a total reversal of coach Greg Chappell’s mission to inject fresh blood into the Indian cricket team and Ganguly was selected alongside VVS Laxman and Zaheer Khan, who had also been removed from the Test team recently. Ganguly and Zaheer both fared well. Saurav emerged as the leading run getter for India in the Test series with South Africa.

Records

Test

* Scored a century on Test debut
* Scored a century in each of his first two Tests
* Captained India in a record 49 Test matches
* Led India to a record 21 Test wins

ODIs

* Second fastest player to reach 10,000, 11,000 ODI runs
* Fastest to reach multiples of 7,000, 8,000, 9,000 ODI Runs
* Highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI — 183, against Sri Lanka in 1999.
* Highest first wicket partnership for India in a ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001.
* Was involved in the first 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid.
* Sixth on the all time list with 31 man of the match awards.
* He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive man of the match awards in ODIs.
* India’s most successful ODI captain.
* First Indian to score a ODI century against Australia in Australia.

Test Cricket

One-Day Cricket