Saurav Ganguly Profile
Batsman, Former Captain
Born July 8, 1972, Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal
The 'Dada' - People's Captain
Batting style: Left-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm medium
Test debut: England v India at Lord's - Jun 20-24, 1996
ODI debut: India v West Indies at Brisbane - Jan 11, 1992
- More Test wins to his credit than any other Indian captain.
- The only Indian Captain to win both the One Day and Test Series on Pakistani soil.
- Captain of Indian cricket team until Oct 2005 (test team from November 10, 2000 and ODI team from September 5, 1999).
- The third cricketer ever to score a century on debut at Lord's after Harry Graham and John Hampshire.
- Scored 183 against Sri Lanka at Taunton in the 1999 cricket World Cup, the highest by an Indian in World Cup cricket.
- Awarded the Padma Shri in 2004.
- He was controversially dropped from the team after Greg Chapel became the Indian coach.
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