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Interesting facts about Saurav Ganguly

Team India is number one in Tests and ODIs, whose credit goes to former captain Sourav Ganguly too. This is the player who gave the mantra of winning team players abroad. In the captaincy of Ganguly, players like Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, and MS Dhoni did the debate. who later joined most of the world's players.

In this article, we have 6 interesting facts about Sourav Ganguly

i) Sourav Ganguly escaped with Dona his childhood girlfriend after England's debut tour. The relations between Donna and Ganguly's family were not good, so they married secretly without informing their families. However, later the family of both of them agreed to this marriage.

ii) Saurav Ganguly works with the right hand. However, for the convenience, he became a left-handed batsman because in the early days he was using his brother's cricket gear. Today he is considered India's greatest left-handed batsman.

iii) After being dropped out of Team India in 1992, Ganguly had got the personal rugs machine in his house for practice. In the meantime, apart from the regular shot, Ganguly had a lot of practice on the batting side. After that Rahul Dravid named him 'God of off side'. In the year 1996, Dravid and Ganguly had test debut at Lord's grounds.

iv) Ganguly had decided to play Rahul Dravid as a wicketkeeper in the team. After that, he was fiercely criticized. However, this decision of Ganguly proved to be a masterstroke within a few days and due to this decision, an extra specialist batsman got the place in the team. And by this decision, Dravid also confirmed his place in the ODI team.

v) Sehwag debuted as a middle-order batsman in Test cricket. However, Ganguly had given him the opportunity to open the batting first. After which he is called the world's most explosive openers.

 vi) Sourav Ganguly made 22 centuries in his ODI career, during which he put 18 centuries out of India. In comparison to Dhoni and Raina, both of these players have not yet scored ODI centuries out of Asia.

Sourav Ganguly, of course, is not in the team today, but Sourav Ganguly's team has won India in Twenty20 World Cup and World Cup 2011.

This is to be noted that in the circumstances under which Sourav Ganguly had taken the captaincy, the future of the Indian team was lying in darkness, but Dada taught them to fight back and win.