Sourav Ganguly’s 54th Birthday (Photo: PTI)
Sourav Ganguly is known as the captain of Indian cricket who taught him to fight on foreign land. Who worked to erase the tagline of ‘Ghar Ki Lion’ associated with Indian cricket. Simply put, Sourav Ganguly was the captain of the Indian icon. Now when the birthday of such a big captain of India, then he is mentioned. Born on 8 July 1972 in Kolkata, Sourav Ganguly has turned 54 years old. By the way, there are many things to tell about Sourav Ganguly. But, we thought why not mention 8 big things related to Dada on July 8?
8 big things related to Sourav Ganguly
In ODI cricket, Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer to win the Player of the Match for 4 consecutive times.
Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer to score 1000 or more runs in 4 consecutive calendaries between 1997 and 2000. In 1997, he scored 1338 runs. 1328 runs in 1998. In 1999, he scored 1767 runs while in 2000 he scored 1579 runs.
Sourav Ganguly scored 11,363 runs in his ODI career, which is the highest run of any left -handed batsman in India. In this case, he is third in the world after Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara (14,234 runs) and Sanath Jayasuriya (13,430 runs).
Sourav Ganguly is one of the 6 cricketers in the world who have more than 10,000 runs and more than 100 wickets in ODI cricket. Sourav Ganguly is the only Indian batsman to score a century in the final of the ICC tournament.
The most important thing about Sourav Ganguly’s ODI career is that he has written 18 out of his 22 centuries on foreign land. That means 18 ODIs have scored out of India.
Sourav Ganguly is the first Indian batsman to score an ODI century in Australia. Talking about Test cricket, he has centuries in SENA countries- Australia, New Zealand and New Zealand. They have not been able to do this in South Africa.
In the knockout of the ICC ODI tournament, only 3 batsmen have been there so far, one of those who has 3 centuries, one is Sourav Ganguly. Apart from him, 2 more batsmen are Ricky Ponting and Saeed Anwar.
