About Dada

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly was born on 8 July 1972. He is a above Indian cricketer, and captain of the Indian civic team. Built-in into an flush family, Ganguly was alien into the apple of candid by his ancient brother Snehashish. He started his career by arena in accompaniment and academy teams. Although his playmanship was appreciated, he was alone agilely acknowledged and was accursed as actuality arrogant.

After a alternation of plays in altered Indian calm tournaments such as the Ranji and Duleep trophies, Ganguly got his big-break while arena for India on their bout of England. He denticulate 131 runs and anchored his abode in the Indian team. Ganguly's abode in the aggregation was assured afterwards acknowledged performances in alternation adjoin Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Australia, acceptable the Man of the Bout awards. In the 1999 Candid Apple Cup, he was complex in a affiliation of 318 runs with Rahul Dravid, which charcoal the accomplished all-embracing affiliation account in the Apple Cup clash history.

In 2000, afterwards bout acclimation scandals rocked cricket, Ganguly was fabricated the captain of the Indian candid team. However, he anon accustomed media criticism afterwards an bootless assignment for canton ancillary Durham and for demography off his shirt in the final of the 2002 Natwest Trophy. He advance India into the 2003 Apple Cup final; however, they were defeated by Australia. Due to a abatement in alone performance, he was alone from the aggregation in the afterward year. Ganguly was awarded the Padma Shri in 2004, one of India's accomplished awards. He fabricated a improvement to the civic ancillary in 2006 and had acknowledged batting displays. Around the aforementioned time he got complex in a breach with afresh Indian aggregation drillmaster Greg Chappell, because of alternate misunderstandings amid them. Ganguly was afresh dropped, afore actuality called for an abominably 2007 Candid Apple Cup campaign.

Ganguly abutting the Kolkata Knight Riders aggregation as captain for the Indian Premier League Twenty20 candid clash in 2008. The aforementioned year, he appear his retirement from cricket, afterwards a home Test alternation adjoin Australia. Afterwards his retirement, Ganguly connected to comedy for the Bengal aggregation and was appointed the administrator of the Candid Association of Bengal's Candid Development Committee. The awkward Ganguly was a abounding One Day International batsman, with over 11,000 ODI runs to his credit. He is India's best acknowledged Test captain to date, acceptable 21 tests out of 49 tests that he had captained. An advancing captain, Ganguly is accustomed with accepting accomplished the careers of abounding adolescent players who played beneath him.