On this Day Sourav Ganguly & Rahul Dravid made Test Debute

Sourav Ganguly & Rahul Dravid Test Debute

In the history of Indian cricket, 20 June will always be written in golden letters. Actually 24 years ago, on this day, those 2 cricketers started their international journey, who later played the most important role in changing the shape of Indian cricket. These 2 cricketers were Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid. When both of them started their journey together at the historic ground of Lord's, only then did everyone know that these two will write new history and later this proved to be true.

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Dada remembered his best day

Dada i.e. Sourav Ganguly considers his Test debut his best day. He has shared this thing many times on social media. This time too, he shared a photo collage of his innings on Instagram, in the middle of which he has posted his photo while watching the telecast of this match on TV so that he can show him how lovely this day and this innings are. With this collage on Instagram, Dada wrote the caption, "Today I made my debut. The most special moment in life."

Ganguly had hit a tremendous century

The second Test match of the series started on 20 June in that English tour at Lodgers Cricket Ground. In the first Test, the Indian team had lost by 8 wickets. In such a situation, Captain Mohammad Azharuddin decided to try two young faces. This step of Azhar proved very special. England had hit 344 runs while batting first. In response, if Team India lost Vikram Rathore's wicket by 25 runs, Ganguly came down to bat.

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After this, the wicket of the second opener Nayan Mongia also fell on 59 runs. After this, Sachin Tendulkar (Sachin Tendulkar), Captain Azhar and Ajay Jadeja (Ajay Jadeja) were also dismissed cheaply. But from the other end, Ganguly was thrilled in the audience with his shot in every corner of the field and hit his century. With this, he joined those few Indian batsmen, who had scored a century in their first Test. The result was that by the time Jadeja was dismissed, the score had reached 202 runs.

'The Wall' just missed the century

After Jadeja's dismissal, Dravid landed in the field and showed such restraint with the first ball that he later came to be called the Indian team's wall. Ganguly was dismissed for 131 runs on 296 runs. He scored 131 runs in 301 ball marathon innings with 20 fours. Dravid continued to score with the tail batsmen despite Ganguly's dismissal. The score reached 419 runs from small partnerships.

Commentators were not tired of praising Dravid's shot selection and patience. Dravid's sobriety was broken on the score of 419 and he came out under pressure and was dismissed five runs before the century. His patience can be gauged from the fact that in this innings of 95 off 267 balls, he had hit only 6 fours. The Indian team scored 429 runs. It later ended on a draw, which was considered India's big success in England that season.

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Ganguly had laid the foundation of modern team India

At the moment, it was Ganguly's captaincy, who held the important responsibility of the post of President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), in which the phase of rejuvenation of Team India started, which was later pushed forward by Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Mahendra Singh Dhoni) was able to hand over the team to Virat Kohli, who looks invincible today.