Top 5 memorable incidents in Sourav Ganguly Cricket Career

Memorable incidents of Sourav Ganguly Cricket Career

Sourav Ganguly, one of the successful captains of the Indian team, is celebrating his 48th birthday on Wednesday. Ganguly, known as 'Dada', was the captain of Team India who taught India to win on foreign soil. Born on 8 July 1972 in Behala, Kolkata, Ganguly not only energized his players but also gave the team the courage to win at any ground in the world. Ganguly, who specializes in aggressive captaincy, made his debut against the West Indies in 1992. Let's know five memorable innings of 'Dada' Sourav Ganguly cricket career, which makes 'Dada' the finest batsman in history

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The Sahara Cup was a bilateral series of five ODIs between India and Pakistan played between 1996–98 in Canada. In the second edition of the Sahara Cup (1997), Ganguly led India to a convincing 4–1 victory. India won five Man of the Match titles in this series. Four of these came to Captain Ganguly's account. In the second match of the series, Ganguly gave the best performance of his one-day career and took four wickets for 16 runs in 10 overs.

Winning the title by beating arch-rivals Pakistan in the 1998 Independence Cup in Dhaka. India and Pakistan were face-to-face in the finals of the three matches of the tournament, held to mark 25 years of Bangladesh's independence. India won the first match by eight wickets. The second match was named after Pakistan, who defeated India by six wickets in this match and the champion team was to be decided from the third match. In the decisive battle, Pakistan batted first and scored 314 runs in the revised 48 overs. India had to score 315 runs in 48 overs and they achieved the target by scoring 316 runs with one ball remaining.

The Australian team rode on a winning chariot, winning 15 consecutive matches in Test cricket in 2000–2001. The Kangaroo team's next tour was to India. In the three-match series, the Australian team, led by Steve Waugh, won the first Test in Mumbai easily and took the lead in the series and it seemed that the Eden Gardens in Kolkata would also win easily, but the Eden Gardens of Kolkata India won the match, returning after trailing Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman's record-breaking partnership. After this, India also won the Chennai Test and won the series 2–1. By winning the Kolkata Test, Ganguly's team India broke Australia's record of 16 consecutive wins.

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Sourav Ganguly, who has won his aggressive captaincy, showed fiercely in Lord's. In 2002, Team India was on a tour of England and the final match of the NatWest Trophy was being played at Lord's. Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif made a memorable performance for India as they chased down a mammoth target of 326 runs. At the same time, Ganguly, who was watching the match in the Lord's balcony, took off his T-shirt and waved in the air after the victory. He did this to teach Andrew Flintoff a lesson. Flintoff took off the T-shirt in the field and waved in the air during the tour of India.