Sourav Ganguly

Sourav Ganguly

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (About this sound pronunciation (help·info); born 8 July 1972), affectionately known as Dada (meaning "elder brother" in Bengali), is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national team. Currently, he is appointed as the honourable President of the CAB[1] and President of the Editorial Board with Wisden India.[2] Born into an affluent Bengali Brahmin family, Ganguly was introduced into the world of cricket by his elder brother Snehasish. He is regarded as one of India's most successful captains in modern times,[3] and one of the greatest ODI batsmen of all time.[4][5][6] He started his career by playing in state and school teams. Currently, he is the 8th highest run scorer in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and was the 3rd batsman in history to cross the 10,000 run landmark, after Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam Ul Haq. In 2002, the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the sixth greatest ODI batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Dean Jones and Michael Bevan.[4]

After playing in different Indian domestic tournaments, such as the Ranji and Duleep trophies, Ganguly got his big-break while playing for India on their tour of England. He scored 131 runs and cemented his place in the Indian team. Ganguly's place in the team was assured after successful performances in series against Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Australia, winning the Man of the Match awards. In the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he was involved in a partnership of 318 runs with Rahul Dravid, which remains the highest overall partnership score in the World Cup tournament history. Due to the match-fixing scandals in 2000 by other players of the team, and for his poor health, Indian captain Sachin Tendulkar resigned his position, and Ganguly was made the captain of the Indian cricket team. He was soon the subject of media criticism after an unsuccessful stint for county side Durham and for taking off his shirt in the final of the 2002 NatWest Series. He led India into the 2003 World Cup final, where they were defeated by Australia. Due to a decrease in individual performance, he was dropped from the team in the following year. Ganguly was awarded the Padma Shri in 2004, one of India's highest civilian awards.[7] He returned to the National team in 2006, and made successful batting displays. Around this time, he became involved in a dispute with Indian team coach Greg Chappell over several misunderstandings. Ganguly was again dropped from the team, however he was selected to play in the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Ganguly joined the Kolkata Knight Riders team as captain for the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament in 2008. The same year, after a home Test series against Australia, he announced his retirement from international cricket. He continued to play for the Bengal team and was appointed the chairman of the Cricket Association of Bengal's Cricket Development Committee. The left-handed Ganguly was a prolific One Day International (ODI) batsman, with over 11,000 ODI runs to his credit. He is one of the most successful Indian Test captains to date, winning 21 out of 49 test matches.Sourav Ganguly is the most successful Indian test captain in overseas with 11 wins.[8] Indian team was ranked at eighth position as per ICC rankings before he became the captain and under his tenure the team rank went up to second position. An aggressive captain, Ganguly is credited with having nurtured the careers of many young players who played under him, and transforming the Indian team into an aggressive fighting unit.

Along with Harshavardhan Neotia, Sanjiv Goenka, Utsav Parekh, and Spanish La Liga side Atlético de Madrid, Ganguly is also the co-owner of Atlético de Kolkata, a franchise of the Indian Super League, which won the inaugural season in 2014.[9]

He was awarded with the Banga Bibhushan Award from the Government of West Bengal on 20 May 2013.
Sourav is currently a part of the Supreme Court of India appointed Justice Mudgal Committee probe panel for the IPL Spot fixing and betting scandal's investigations.[11]

He presently holds the post of being a member of the Indian Premier League governing council.


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Personal information
Full name Sourav Chandidas Ganguly
Born 8 July 1972 (age 43)
Behala, Calcutta (presently Kolkata), West Bengal, India
Nickname The Prince of Calcutta, The Maharaja, The God of the Off Side, Dada, The Warrior Prince
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Right arm medium
Role Batsman
Part-time all-rounder
Relations Brother: Snehasish Ganguly
Wife: Dona Ganguly (m. 1997)
Daughter: Sana Ganguly (b. 2001)
Website www.twitter.com/sganguly99
International information
National side
India
Test debut (cap 207) 20 June 1996 v England
Last Test 6 November 2008 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 84) 11 January 1992 v West Indies
Last ODI 15 November 2007 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no. 2
Domestic team information
Years Team
1990–2010 Bengal
2000 Lancashire
2005 Glamorgan
2006 Northamptonshire
2008–10 Kolkata Knight Riders
2011–2012 Pune Warriors India
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 113 311 254 437
Runs scored 7,212 11,363 15,687 15,622
Batting average 42.17 41.02 44.18 41.32
100s/50s 16/35 22/72 33/89 31/97
Top score 239 183 239 183
Balls bowled 3,117 4,561 11,108 8,199
Wickets 32 100 167 171
Bowling average 52.53 38.49 36.52 38.86
5 wickets in innings 0 2 4 2
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 3/28 5/16 6/46 5/16
Catches/stumpings 71/– 100/– 168/– 131/

Sachin Tendulkar

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• Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar born 24 April 1973) is a former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.[4][5][6][7][8] He took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his Test debut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for close to twenty-four years. He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a double century in a One Day International, holds the record for most number of runs in both ODI and Test cricket, the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket.
• In 2002 just half way through his career, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Don Bradman, and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards.[10] Later in his career, Tendulkar was a part of the Indian team that won the 2011 World Cup, his first win in six World Cup appearances for India.[11] He had previously been named "Player of the Tournament" at the 2003 edition of the tournament, held in South Africa. In 2013, he was the only Indian cricketer included in an all-time Test World XI named to mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.[12]
• Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his outstanding sporting achievement, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997, India's highest sporting honour, and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively, India's fourth and second highest civilian awards.[15] After a few hours of his final match on 16 November 2013, the Prime Minister's Office announced the decision to award him the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.[16][17] He is the youngest recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the award.[18][19] He also won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.[20] In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India.[21] He was also the first sportsperson and the first person without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of group captain by the Indian Air Force.[22] In 2012, he was named an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia.
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• In December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs.[25] He retired from Twenty20 cricket in October 2013[26] and subsequently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket,[27][28] retiring on 16 November 2013 after playing his 200th and final Test match, against the West Indies in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium.[29] Tendulkar played 664 international cricket matches in total, scoring 34,357 runs

Bishan Singh Bedi

Bishan Singh Bedi

 Bishan Singh Bedi About this sound pronunciation (help·info) (sometimes spelt as Bishen Singh Bedi; born 25 September 1946) is a former Indian cricketer who was primarily a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He played Test cricket for India from 1966 to 1979 and formed part of the famous Indian spin quartet. He played a total of 67 test and took 266 wickets. He also captained the national side in 22 Test matches. Bedi wore a colourful patka and has voiced outspoken and forthright views on cricketing matters.

B.S. Bedi

Personal information

Full name Bishan Singh Bedi

Born 25 September 1946 (age 69)

Amritsar, Punjab, British India

Batting style Right-handed batsman

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Role Bowler, coach

International information

National side

India

Test debut (cap 113) 31 December 1966 v West Indies

Last Test 30 August 1979 v England

ODI debut (cap 2) 13 July 1974 v England

Last ODI 16 June 1979 v Sri Lanka

Domestic team information

Years Team

1968–1981 Delhi

1972–1977 Northamptonshire

1961–1967 Northern Punjab

Career statistics

Competition Test ODI FC List A

Matches 67 10 370 72

Runs scored 656 31 3584 218

Batting average 8.98 6.20 11.37 6.81

100s/50s 0/1 –/– 0/7 0/0

Top score 50* 13 61 24*

Balls bowled 21364 590 90315 3686

Wickets 266 7 1560 71

Bowling average 28.71 48.57 21.69 29.39

5 wickets in innings 14 0 106 1

10 wickets in match 1 0 20 0

Best bowling 7/98 2/44 7/5 5/30

Indian national cricket captains

A total of 23 players have captained the Indian ODI team so far and among them Mahendra Singh Dhoni has the highest win rate (61.81%).^{[notes 1]} Kapil Dev comes second with a 56% win rate. Mohammad Azharuddin captained India in 174 matches.^[21] Kapil Dev was the first Indian captain to lead the side to Cricket World Cup victory, in 1983. Mahendra Singh Dhoni won India's second World Cup in 2011. M.S. Dhoni is the first and only wicket keeper to captain any team for more than 50 matches.^[22] Azharuddin (2), Tendulkar (1) and Dhoni (3) are the only captains with tied-ODI matches.^[23]

Number	Name	Year	Played	Won	Lost	Tied	No result	Win %[notes 2]
1	Ajit Wadekar	1974	2	2	0	0	0	100
2	Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan	1975–1979	7	1	6	0	0	14
3	Bishan Singh Bedi	1975–1978	4	1	3	0	0	25
4	Sunil Gavaskar	1980–1985	37	14	21	0	2	40
5	Gundappa Viswanath	1980	1	0	1	0	0	0
6	Kapil Dev	1982–1992	74	40	32	0	2	56
7	Syed Kirmani	1983	1	0	1	0	0	0
8	Mohinder Amarnath	1984	1	0	0	0	1	—
9	Ravi Shastri	1986–1991	11	4	7	0	0	36
10	Dilip Vengsarkar	1987–1988	18	8	10	0	0	44
11	Krishnamachari Srikkanth	1989–1990	13	4	8	0	1	33
12	Mohammad Azharuddin	1989–1999	174	90	76	2	6	54
13	Sachin Tendulkar	1996–1999	73	23	43	1	6	35
14	Ajay Jadeja	1997–1999	13	8	5	0	0	62
15	Sourav Ganguly	1999–2005	146	76	65	0	5	54
16	Rahul Dravid	2000–2001, 2007	79	42	33	0	4	53
17	Anil Kumble	2001	1	1	0	0	0	100
18	Virender Sehwag	2003–2011	12	7	5	0	0	58
19	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	2007–present	191	104	72	4	11	59
20	Suresh Raina	2010–2014	12	6	5	0	1	54
21	Gautam Gambhir	2010–2011	6	6	0	0	0	100
22	Virat Kohli	2013–2014	17	14	3	0	0	82
23	Ajinkya Rahane	2015	3	3	0	0	0	100
Total			896	451	399	7	39	53

Sunil Gavaskar

Sunil Gavaskar

Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar About this sound pronunciation (help·info) (born 10 July 1949) is an Indian former cricketer who played during the 1970s and 1980s for the Bombay cricket team and Indian national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most Test runs and most Test centuries scored by any batsman. He held the record of 34 Test centuries for almost two decades before it was broken by Sachin Tendulkar in December 2005. He was the first person to score centuries in both innings of a Test match thrice, but unlike Ricky Ponting and David Warner (who also achieved the feat twice like Gavaskar) after him, none of his games yielded a win.

Gavaskar was widely admired for his technique against fast bowling, with a particularly high average of 65.45 against the West Indies, who possessed a four-pronged fast bowling attack regarded as the most vicious in Test history. His captaincy of the Indian team, however, was less successful. There were incidents like crowd displeasure at Eden Gardens in Calcutta leading to multiple matches being disrupted, in response to the poor performance of the Indian team. Turbulent performances of the team led to multiple exchanges of captaincy between Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, with one of Gavaskar's sackings coming just six months before Kapil led India to victory at the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

Gavaskar is a recipient of the Indian civilian honours of the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan. In 2012, he was awarded the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for Cricket in India.


On 28 March 2014, Supreme Court of India, appointed Gavaskar as the Interim BCCI President primarily to oversee 7th Season of Indian Premier League. The Court also directed him to relinquish his job as a Cricket Commentator

Personal information
Full name Sunil Manohar Gavaskar
Born 10 July 1949 (age 66)
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Nickname Sunny, Little Master
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Batting style Right-hand batsman
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Role Opening batsman
Relations MK Mantri (uncle), RS Gavaskar (son), GR Viswanath
International information
National side
India
Test debut (cap 128) 6 March 1971 v West Indies
Last Test 13 March 1987 v Pakistan
ODI debut (cap 4) 13 July 1974 v England
Last ODI 5 November 1987 v England
Domestic team information
Years Team
1967/68–1986/87 Bombay
1980 Somerset
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 125 108 348 151
Runs scored 10122 3092 25834 4594
Batting average 51.12 35.13 51.46 36.17
100s/50s 34/45 1/27 81/105 5/37
Top score 236* 103* 340 123
Balls bowled 380 20 1953 108
Wickets 1 1 22 2
Bowling average 206.00 25.00 56.36 40.50
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/34 1/10 3/43 1/10

Catches/stumpings 108/– 22/– 293/– 37/–

Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj About this sound pronunciation (help·info); born 6 January 1959), better known as Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer. He captained the Indian cricket team which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002,[2] Kapil Dev is one of the greatest all-rounders of all time. He was also India's national cricket coach for 10 months between October 1999 and August 2000.

Kapil was a right-arm pace bowler noted for his graceful action and potent outswinger, and was India's main strike bowler for most of his career. He also developed a fine inswinging yorker during the 1980s, which he used very effectively against tail-enders. As a batsman, he was a natural striker of the ball who could hook and drive effectively. A naturally aggressive player, he often helped India in difficult situations by taking the attack to the opposition. Nicknamed The Haryana Hurricane, he represented the Haryana cricket team in domestic cricket.[3] He retired in 1994, holding the world record for the most number of wickets taken in Test cricket, a record subsequently broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. At the time, he was also India's highest wicket taker in both major forms of cricket, Tests and ODIs. He is the only player in the history of cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored more than 5,000 runs in Tests,[4] making him one of the greatest all-rounders to have played the game. On 8 March 2010, Kapil Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame

Personal information

Full name Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj
Born 6 January 1959 (age 57)
Chandigarh, East Punjab, India
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm fast medium
Role Bowling All-rounder
International information
National side
India
Test debut (cap 142) 16 October 1978 v Pakistan
Last Test 19 March 1994 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 25) 1 October 1978 v Pakistan
Last ODI 17 October 1994 v West Indies
Domestic team information
Years Team
1975–1992 Haryana
1984–1985 Worcestershire
1981–1983 Northamptonshire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 131 225 275 309
Runs scored 5248 3783 11356 5461
Batting average 31.05 23.79 32.91 24.59
100s/50s 8/27 1/14 18/56 2/23
Top score 163 175* 193 175*
Balls bowled 27740 11202 48853 14947
Wickets 434 253 835 335
Bowling average 29.64 27.45 27.09 27.34
5 wickets in innings 23 1 39 2
10 wickets in match 2 n/a 3 n/a
Best bowling 9/83 5/43 9/83 5/43
Catches/stumpings 64/– 71/– 192/– 99/–