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SOURAV
GANGULY
Born : 1973
Sourav Ganguly the current Captain of the Indian Cricket team is an
aggressive left-handed batsman in the middle order and also bowls
right-handed military medium pace.
Ganguly was born in an affluent family in Kolkata on 8th July 1973. As a
young boy, Sourav's first interest was football and he played in the
school football team for four years. But later he shifted to cricket and
joined a cricket coaching club. Young Sourav made a century in an under-15
cricket match and another century in the 1991 Duleep Trophy which earned
him a place in the Indian Cricket team touring Australia in 1991-92.
Although this gave a start to his international career he was made to play
only one One-Day International Match because of his inability to play
onside strokes. He faced criticism for his attitude and inability. But
after a gap of four years, he came back in style in the 1996 tour to
England at Lord's; his test debut, scoring centuries and wickets and
winning the Man of the Series Award and in the Sahara Cup, Toronto 1997
set a new World Record for 5 consecutive Man of the Match Awards.
From then Sourav has come a long way and achieved a lot - he along with
Tendulkar forms the 4th Best Opening Pair in the History of One-day
cricket and were involved in a World Record Opening Partnership of 252.
Ganguly was named Sport star Person of the Year 1998 and won the Arjuna
Award in the same year.
Personally Sourav is a quiet, unassuming, undemonstrative man with nerves
of steel. He is deeply religious and observes a fast every Tuesday. He is
married to Dona, his next-door-neighbour, who is a classical dancer. He
has accomplished a top place in Indian Cricket as a batsman and bowler by
excelling both in One-Day Internationals and Test Matches.
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