| Name(s) |
SOURAV
Chandidas GANGULY |
| Date of Birth |
July 08, 1972 |
| Identity |
Indian cricketer
and captain of the Indian national team |
| Date-wise Events / Works |
- January 11, 1992: He made his ODI
match debut on this day; against West Indies.
- June 20, 1996: He made his test match
debut on this day; against England.
- February 1997: He got married.
- 1999: Cricket World Cup, he was
involved in a partnership of 318 runs with Rahul Dravid,
which remains the highest overall partnership score in the
World Cup tournament history.
- 2002: The Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
ranked him the sixth greatest ODI batsman
of all time.
- July 13, 2002: He
took off his shirt at Lord's after India's NatWest series
win on this day.
- 2003: He led India into the 2003
World Cup final, where they were defeated by Australia.
- June 30, 2004: He was awarded the
PADMA SHRI award by the Govt of India.
- November 15, 2007: He played his last
ODI match on this day; against Pakistan.
- December 12, 2007: He scored his
maiden double century of his career while playing against
Pakistan. He scored 239 runs in the first innings of the
third and final Test match of the series.
- 2008: He joined the Kolkata Knight
Riders team as captain for the Indian Premier League
Twenty20 cricket tournament.
- November 06, 2008: He played his last
test match on this day; against Australia.
- October 29, 2012: He announced that
he has decided not to play in next year's IPL and to retire
from the game.
- May 20, 2013: He was awarded with the
Banga Bibhushan Award from the Government
of West Bengal on this day.
- January 02, 2017: He became
the President of BCCI (Board for Cricket Control in India),
consequent upon removal of Anurag Singh Thakur by the order
of the Supreme Court of India.
- July 13, 2017: He admitted
that his act of celebrating India's NatWest series win on on
this day by taking off and waiving his shirt. on this day,
was a "big mistake". "It was only a way of relieving the
pressure. You make mistakes in life. I made a mistake. But
we were on the winning side," he later admitted.
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| Other Events & Developments
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- He is regarded as one of India's most successful
captains in modern times, and one of the greatest
ODI batsmen of all time.
- He has the highest individual score by an Indian batsman
(183) in the Cricket World Cup.
- He is the 8th highest run scorer in One Day
Internationals (ODIs) and was the 3rd
batsman in history to cross the 10,000 run
landmark, after Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam Ul Haq.
- The same year, after a home Test series against
Australia, he announced his retirement from
international cricket.
- He was appointed the chairman of the Cricket Association
of Bengal's Cricket Development Committee.
- The Indian team was ranked eighth in
the ICC rankings before he became the captain, and under his
tenure the team rank went up to second.
- He is currently a part of the Supreme Court of India
appointed Justice Mudgal Committee probe panel for the IPL
Spot fixing and betting scandal's investigations.
- He is the only cricketer to win four
consecutive man of the match awards in One Day
Internationals.
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