Sourav Ganguly is India’s most successful test captain and he is also one of the greats of the game.He first played for India in 1992 when he was picked for the Australian Tour but he scored a meager 3 runs which cost him his place.He then came back in 1996 when he played against the English Team and he scored a magnificent hundred on debut .Since then he has never looked back.He rode the crest of the wave that came in his career early on scoring breathtaking centuries in both formats of the game when in 2000 he climbed the no 1 ranking in world cricket .He was then given captaincy after the infamous match fixing scandal and though he lost some of his regal touch due to his captaincy he made sure that his selfless contribution took India to many overseas wins which India did not taste for many years .he went to become India’s best captain overtaking Ajit Wadekar,Kapil Dev and many others.
Some felt he couldn't play the bouncer, others swore that he was God on the off-side; some laughed at his lack of athleticism, others took immense pride in his ability to galvanise a side. Sourav Ganguly's ability to polarise opinion led to one of the most fascinating dramas in Indian cricket. Yet, nobody can dispute that he was India's most successful Test captain - forging a winning unit from a bunch of talented, but directionless, individuals - and nobody can argue about him being one of the greatest one-day batsmen of all time. Despite being a batsman who combined grace with surgical precision in his strokeplay, his career had spluttered to a standstill before being resurrected by a scintillating hundred on debut at Lord's in 1996. Later that year, he was promoted to the top of the order in ODIs and, along with Sachin Tendulkar, formed one of the most destructive opening pairs in history.
When he took over the captaincy after the match-fixing exposes in 2000, he quickly proved to be a tough, intuitive and uncompromising leader. Under his stewardship India started winning Test matches away, and put together a splendid streak that took them all the way to the World Cup final in 2003. Later that year, in Australia, an unexpected and incandescent hundred at Brisbane set the tone for the series where India fought the world's best team to a standstill. Victory in Pakistan turned him into a cult figure but instead of being a springboard for greater things, it was the peak of a slippery slope.
The beginning of the end came in 2004 at Nagpur - when his last-minute withdrawal played a part in Australia clinching the series - and things went pear shaped when his loss of personal form coincided with India's insipid ODI performances. Breaking point was reached when his differences with Greg Chappell leaked into public domain and his career was in jeopardy when India began their remarkable revival under Rahul Dravid.
His gritty 30s at Karachi, when India succumbed to a humiliating defeat in early 2006, weren't enough for him to retain his spot and some felt he would never get another chance. Others, as always, thought otherwise and they were proved right when he was included in the Test squad for the away series in South Africa in 2006-2007. He ended as the highest Indian run-scorer in that series and capped his fairytale comeback with four half-centuries on his return to ODIs. He continued his fine run in England, where he finished as the second highest scorer in Tests, and went on to slam back-to-back hundreds against Pakistan at home, the second of which was a glorious 239 in Bangalore.
Sourav Ganguly has shown why he is the greatest as he been scoring at an amazing strike rate against Australia notching up two half centuries .We hope that a Xaverian keeps the Xavier’s flag flying in foreign shores as well as Indian shores.
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