saurav ganguly- the prince of kolkata

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PRINCE OF CALCUTTA

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•D.O.B -8TH JULY 1972 in Calcutta•Youngest son of Chandidas and Nirupa Ganguly•One of the richest family of Calcutta•Flourishing Print business •Knicked name as “Maharaja”•1ST Love was “Soccer”

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INSPIRATION

Elder brother Snehasish Ganguly was an established player of West

bengal Backed Sourav’s decision ,to be a

cricketer Was enrolled into cricket coaching

camp when he was in tenth grade Despite being a right handed , learnt to

bat left handed As he showed promise , was enrolled in

a cricket academy

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EARLY SUCCESS N HICK UPS Was made Captain of “

St Xavier's School's cricket team”,after he smashed a hundread against orissa u-15 side

At the same time he was perceived “arrogant” by his teammates

Several times refused to do d duties of a “12th” man

His caliber gave him a chance to make his “1st class debut” for bengal in 1989

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INTERNATIONAL ARENA Made ODI debut vs WI on 11jan 1992 n made 3 Terrific Ranji seasons: 1993-94 n 1994-95 Followed by 171 in 1995-96 in Duleep trophy 1996 : Called back to National side vs England LORD’s : 131 ,3rd cricketer to achieve such feat Tent Bridge : 136 $ 48 Eloped with childhood sweetheart Dona Roy Wedding was held in feb 1997

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DAWN OF ANOTHER LIFE(1997) Maiden ODI century

(113) vs Sri Lanka Consecutive four

MOM in Sahara cup vs PAK

3 test 100’s vs SL later in the year

Century vs PAK in final’s of Asia cup as India chased down the record total of 316 in 1998

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BIG MATCH PLAYER 1999 WC : 183 vs SL , 318 runs stand

with Dravid , world record in WC history With 5 centuries in the 1999 season , he

topped the ICC ODI ratings

BIG STAGE : CAPTAINCY N ACCOLADES After match fixing scandals in 2000 Impressive start defeating SA in 5ODI

series Taking team to finals of ICC knockout

cup Also , scored 100’s in semis n finals

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FEARLESS N AGGRESSIVE 2001 : Steve waugh was made to

wait for 4 occasions for toss in India India defeated ozz 2-1 in test series

after being down by 1 match 2002 Natwest series :india chased

down a mammoth total of 326, courtesy yuvi n kaif

2003 WC: India reached Finals Dada scoring 3 hundreads in the WC

with 465 runs at an average of 58

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DOWNFALL OF THE PRINCE Own form dropped in series against

Australia in 2003 n Pakistan in 2004 Australia won a test series in India in

2004 for the 1st time since 1969 Oct 2005 : had rifts with new coach

Greg Chappel during Zimbabwe tour Sep 2005 : he was dropped from

national side for his poor run in both forms of the game

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DOWN BUT NOT OUT YET August 2006 : Following India’s poor run

in ICC champion’s trophy n ODI series in SA , DADA was called back for test series

Was the highest run accumulator in the series

Due to his GUTSY comeback , he was recalled in the ODI squad

Dada was the highest run getter against WI n SL in home series n winning MOS award against SL averaging 70

12 Dec2007: maiden double century vs PAk

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RETIREMENT OCT2008: He

decided to quit all forms of international cricket after the series vs ozz

He amassed 324 runs with an average of 54 n India regained the BORDER-GAVASKAR trophy, winning series 2-0

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FACTS N HIGHLIGHTS:

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GREATEST CAPTAIN OF INDIA