~ Ganguly and Sachin is a world record holder for creating most number of 50 run parternerships in the first wicket(44) and they also have (26)century parternerships for the first wicket. ~ Ganguly is the only fourth player to cross 11,000 ODI runs besides Sachin, Ponting and Jayasuriya. ~ He also holds the record to reach 6000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 ODI runs in the fewest number of matches. ~ In the year 2004, Ganguly was awarded the “Padma Sri”. ~ He captained team India in a record of 49 Test matches in which he won 21 of these, including 12 of them outside India was his biggest Achievement. ~ He also led India to their first series win in both Test and ODI’s in Pakistan. ~ He also led India to victory over Steve Waugh’s Australia in the 2001 Border Gavaskar Trophy which is considered one of he greatest in Indian cricket history ~ Ganguly and Sachin holds the record of most 200+ODI partnerships (6 times). ~ He was involved in the first 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid. ~ He scored highest number of ODI runs in the year 1997, 1999 and 2000. ~ He scored 7centuries in a single year 2000 and stood second in the list of highest number of centuries in a single calendar. ~ He won 3 Man of the Series awards in Test cricket which was against England, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and 7 in ODI cricket which was against Pakistan(2), Sri Lanka(1), West Indies(2), New Zealand(1) and Zimbabwe(1). ~ He won 6 Man of the Match awards in Test cricket which was against England, Sri Lanka(2), Australia and South Africa, and 31 awards in ODI’s.
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