SOURAV CHANDIDAS GANGULY : Without an iota of doubt the best captain India has ever produced,the finest left hander of modern day cricket ,the GOD of the offside , THE PRINCE OF KOLKATA and so on.....
LETS HAVE A LOOK @ DADA'S ACHIEVEMENTS
July 1996: Became one of the few cricketers who have scored a century on debut. He made his Test debut against England at Lords in 1996, and went on to score a century in the very next match as well. He joined another select brand of 3 batsman who made tons in their 1st two Test innings.Sourav was only the 3rd batsman in the world to score a century on debut at Lords. His 131 still remains the highest by any batsman on his debut at Lord’s.
1997: Became the first player to receive 5 consecutive Man of the Match awards in one-dayers in the Sahara 1997 Cup. He also won the Man of the Series IN sahara CUP
May 1999: Sourav’s highest one day score, a mammoth 183 against Sri Lanka in the 1999 World Cup was, at the time, the highest by an Indian in an ODI
May 1999: His 183 against Sri Lanka remains the highest by an Indian in a World Cup.
1999: Sourav bagged as many as 8 Man of the Match awards in the year!
Mar 2001: In the 2nd Test vs. Australia at Kolkata in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Sourav became only the 3rd captain in Cricket history to lead a team to victory after following on. India went on to win the series 2-1!
-> Fastest player in the world to score 4000,5000,6000,7000,8000,9000 runs (in least number of matches)
March 2003: Became the 1st Indian Captain in 2 decades to take his team to the World Cup Final!
Jan 2004: Led his team to a 1-1 series draw against Australia and retained the Border-Gavaskar trophy (2003-2004).
2004: Became the fastest player to score 9,000 runs in ODIs (in just 236 matches and 228 innings), breaking fellow teammate Sachin Tendulkar's record of 242 ODIs.
Mar - Apr 2004: Became the first Indian captain to win an ODI and Test series in Pakistan.
April 2004: Became India’s most successful Test captain,most number of test wins in foreign soil.
Feb 2005: Climbed to the #3 spot in the list of most sixes hit by a batsman in ODI with 168 sixes in 247 matches.
Feb 2007:he is hailed as the "KING OF COMEBACKS" for making one of the strongest comebacks ever in the history of cricket.
June 2008: Sourav swept top honors at the 1st Castrol Asian Cricket Awards in Karachi. He was adjuged "Castrol Asian Cricketer of the Year" and "Castrol Best Asian Batsman of the Year" for being the highest run-getter in Asia in 2007.
rated as the SIXTH best one-day batsman of all time by the one & only bible of cricket -the WISDEN
! DADA RULES FOR EVER !
With Love ,
suvendu pattanaik
an avid dada fan
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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