Dada's decides to End it!
India's most successful Test Captain ever, Saurav Ganguly, fondly called Dada, has announced his retirement from the game. The news came as a shocker to many of Ganguly's fans who were not expecting this so early.
Ganguly announced that the upcoming Test Series against Australia would be his last series of his career. Ganguly was controversially included in the four test series against Australia and more controversially dropped from the Irani Trophy.
Ganguly also mentioned that he was surprised by his inclusion in the Test series.
Speaking to reporters in Bangalore on Tuesday Ganguly said "I have decided to quit. This will be my last Test series.
These will be my last four Test matches for the country. I hope I will be able to go on a winning note. I thank you all for your cooperation.I have informed my team of my decision. I hope I'll end my career with a winning knock".
Ganguly had a glorious career spanning over 12 years & 109 Tests and scoring 6888runs at an average of 41.74 which included 15 centuries after a stunning debut in Lord's way back in 1996
Records
Ganguly is the seventh Indian cricketer to have played 100 Test matches. He is currently the 5th highest overall run scorer for India in Tests.He is the fourth Indian to have played in more than 300 One Day Internationals.In terms of overall runs scored in ODIs, Ganguly is the second among Indians after Sachin Tendulkar (who has the highest ODI runs in the world) and the fourth in the world.
Ganguly has scored 15 centuries in Test matches and 22 in ODIs. He is one of only seven batsmen to score more than 10,000 runs in ODIs.Ganguly has 22 centuries in ODIs, in terms of number of centuries in ODIs, he is only behind Sachin Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasuriya and Ricky Ponting. Sourav, along with Sachin Tendulkar, formed by far the most successful opening pair in One Day Cricket, having amassed the highest number of century partnerships for the first wicket. Together, they have scored more than 7000 runs at an average of 48.98, now with Sachin he is a world record holder for creating most no. of 50 run partnership in the first wicket(44 fifties).
Ganguly is the fourth player to cross 11,000 ODI runs and third player to cross 10,000 ODI runs and so far the fastest in ODI history, after Sachin Tendulkar. He also reached 6000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 ODI runs milestones in the fewest number of matches. Sourav can bowl medium-pacers as well, but has under-achieved in this aspect in Test matches, taking 31 wickets in 99 matches, at an average of 52.47. As of 2006, he is the only Indian captain to win a Test series in Pakistan (although two of the three tests of that series was led by Rahul Dravid). He is also one of the 3 players in the world to achieve amazing treble of 10,000 runs, 100 wickets and 100 catches in ODI cricket history, the others being Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya
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