Sourav Ganguly last world cup



Sourav Ganguly is the former Indian cricket and also the former captain of Indian national team, he also knows by the name of God of offside with his exemplary batting skills, in the year 1972 Sourav Ganguly was born in Kolkata, his father Chandidas Ganguly was a famous businessman in his city and he also got an elder brother named Snehashish Ganguly who inspires Sourav Ganguly to play cricket and to maintain the balance between his studies and his cricket they built a pitch in their house and he used to practice over there whenever he gets time, Sourav Ganguly was right-hander but he became a left-hander batsman to use the equipment of his elder brother.

 Sourav Ganguly rose through the ranks with the performance in his school level and he is the one who has also played many domestic crickets in the Duleep trophy and also in the Ranji cricket, at the age of 18 only he played his Ranji trophy final for Bengal against Delhi side, and in that match, it was the Bengal team which were crowned champion against the Delhi side.

Sourav Ganguly made his international debut for the Indian team in the year 1992   in a one-day international match against West Indies but in his first match he was unable to perform and he also faced a lot of criticism for his bad behavior with the other teammates.



Then he got dropped from the Indian team and played the domestic cricket and in a Duleep trophy he played a scintillating inning of 171 runs before team India tour against England and with his outstanding performance he got the selection in the team.

 In his first test match he played a class innings against England at the Lords and scored a smashing 131 runs and with a century in the first innings he became the only third player to score a century in their opening three innings.

In the year 2000 Sourav Ganguly named the captain of the Indian national team and he won his first series against South Africa, in the 2000 ICC knockout trophy under his captaincy team India was also reached to the finals.

Under the supervision of Sourav Ganguly team, India broke the record of unbeaten 16 matches winning streak of Australia,  under his captaincy team India also reached to the world cup 2003 finals and Sourav Ganguly last world cup he played for the team in the year 2007 in West Indies where the team got knocked out from the group stages, he announced his retirement in the year 2008.

Sourav Ganguly also played the Indian premier league as well with the Kolkata Knight riders team and also for the Pune Warriors team as well and after playing two seasons with the Pune Warriors he announces his retirement.

Now he is the current president of the BCCI.

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