* Sourav Ganguly* A Player who got the oppurtunity to captain the Indian side after that fixing Saga . * In a time period of just 5 years , From no. 8 , he took his team to no. 2 position . * A Captain , who made an ordinary team to a match winning team Here are some of his ODI Stats which you may not know > # In wc 1999 , He scored 270 runs and took 6 wkts (with two man of the match Awards ) # In Champions trophy 2000 , he took his team to the finals by scoring 348 runs (highest run scorer ) # Under his captaincy , team won the CT 2002 (unfortunate to share it cause of rain) In wc 2003 , He was the 2nd highest run scorer after sachin . He scored 465 runs and took 7 wkts too ) Ganguly and his guys played well in the wc 2003 , but failed in the finals .(Remind you the opposition was unbeatable aussies and the conditions were South african ) # Ganguly equals the record of most centuries in world cups -4 # He holds the record to hit most sixes in world cups - 23 # Also has the record of Most sixes in CT - 18 # Highest run scorer in Champions trophy - 665 runs with 4 tons . # 2nd highest score in An innings of an ICC event (183- in wc ,141 in CT) #Also highest partnerships in ICC Events - in WC - 318 with Dravid In CT - 244 With Sachin . ( You may have doubt that he scored against minnows . Kenya was the semifinalist in wc03 and Zimbabwe were at no. 4 .So you cant say minnows to them atleast . By the way there would be only one or two matches against them ) A Player who did everything for his team , but got few success . In Champions trophy - He won 7 out of 11 matches , while two went for no result . In world cups , he lost only 2 matches , both from Australia Now some interesting facts for Dhoni fans too -) In CT 2006 , He scored 86 Runs . In WC 2007 , under dravids captaincy , he scored 29 runs including two Ducks* . In the same tournament , Ganguly scored 162 runs with one wkt After all Dhoni is a big match player . In CT2009 , Dhoni scored 3 runs .Well he was captain at that time and it was captains knock , may be In 2013 , when he took his team to win , he scored an amount of 27 runs Including Duck* in the finals Yes Some Dhoni fans will also say That Dhoni won All Icc trophies for them . Remind you , He also lost in 5 tournaments including CT2009 , T20 -2009 , T20- 2010 ,T20 -2012 , T20 -2014 .(Its been 7 years since he is captaining the side ) . পুরো টা দেখে ঝামেলা করবেন
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:42:05 +0000
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