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Sourav Ganguly
File:Saurav1.jpg
File:50px-Flag of India.svg.png India
Personal information
Batting style Left hand bat
Bowling style Right arm medium
Career statistics
Tests ODIs

Matches

100 311

Runs scored

6429 11363

Batting average

43.14 41.02

100s/50s

15/30 22/72

Top score

239 183

'Balls' bowled

2948 4561

Wickets

32 100

Bowling average

49.93 38.49

'5 wickets in 'innings

0 2

10 wickets in match

0 n/a

Best bowling

3/37 5/16

'Catches/'stumpings

65/0 100/0

One-Day Cricket

Runs Opponent Venue Year Result
113 Sri Lanka

Colombo (RPS)

1997/98 Sri Lanka
124 Pakistan

Dhaka

1997/98 India
105 New Zealand

Sharjah

1997/98 India
109 Sri Lanka

Colombo (RPS)

1997/98 India
107* Zimbabwe

Bulawayo

1998/99 India
130* Sri Lanka

Nagpur

1998/99 India
183 Sri Lanka

Taunton

1999/00 India
139 Zimbabwe

Nairobi

1999/00 India
153* New Zealand

Gwalior

1999/00 India
100 Australia

Melbourne

1999/00 Australia
141 Pakistan

Adelaide

1999/00 India
105* South Africa

Jamshedpur

1999/00 India
135* Bangladesh

Dhaka

1999/00 India
141* South Africa

Nairobi (Gymk)

2000/01 India
117 New Zealand

Nairobi (Gymk)

2000/01 New Zealand
144 Zimbabwe

Ahmedabad

2000/01 India
127 South Africa

Johannesburg

2001/02 South Africa
111 Kenya

Paarl

2001/02 India
117* England

Colombo (RPS)

2002/03 India
112* Namibia

Pietermaritzburg

2002/03 India
107* Kenya

Cape Town

2002/03 India
111* Kenya

Durban

2002/03 India

Test Cricket

Runs Opponent Venue Year Result
131 England Lord's 1996 Drawn
136 England Nottingham 1996 Drawn
147 Sri Lanka Colombo (SSC) 1997/98 Drawn
109 Sri Lanka Mohali 1997/98 Drawn
173 Sri Lanka Mumbai 1997/98 Drawn
101* New Zealand Hamilton 1998/99 Drawn
101 New Zealand Ahmedabad 1999/00 Drawn
136 Zimbabwe Delhi 2001/02 India
128 England Leeds 2002 India
100* New Zealand Ahmedabad 2003/04 Drawn
144 Australia Brisbane 2003/04 Drawn
101 Zimbabwe Bulawayo 2005 India
100 Bangladesh Chittagong 2007 Drawn
102 Pakistan Kolkata 2007 Drawn
239 Pakistan Bangalore 2007 Drawn

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
  • Hold the record of most 200+ ODI partnerships (6 times) along with Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting.
  • Holds the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for most 1st wicket ODI partnerships of 175+ runs (7 times).
  • Holds the record, shared with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the second highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI — 183, against Sri Lanka in 1999.
  • Held the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for the highest first wicket partnership for India in a ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001. This record was bettered by Sri Lankan opening pair of Jayasuriya and Tharanga in 2006 at Headingley.
  • 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.
  • Highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in 1997.
  • Second highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in 1998.
  • Highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in 1999.
  • Highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in 2000.
  • Second highest ODI runs scorer for India (in a calendar year) in 2001.
  • Second highest ODI runs scorer for India (in a calendar year) in 2002.
  • Third highest ODI runs scorer for India (in a calendar year) in 2003.
  • Third highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in 2004.
  • Third in the list of hitting maximum number of sixes in ODIs.
  • Second in the list of highest number of centuries in a single calendar year ever. 7 centuries in 2000.

SOURAV GANGULY(DADA)