Famously given the title of ‘Prince of Kolkata’ by former England captain Geoffrey Boycott, Ganguly took over India captaincy 4 years after his well-known Check debut at Lord’s in 1996 the place he struck a century towards England.
He took over captaincy within the yr 2000, when Indian cricket was making an attempt to come back out of the match-fixing scandal, and shortly began grooming younger expertise and throw them within the line of fireside.The 2 names that come straight to thoughts on these traces are Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh.
Underneath Ganguly’s management India reached the finals of ICC Knockout Trophy in 2000, adopted by the well-known win over Australia in a Check collection at residence to win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2-1.
One of many iconic moments of Indian cricket arrived within the yr 2002, when ‘Dada’ took off his jersey on the Lord’s balcony after India got here again from the useless to beat England within the Natwest Trophy remaining. He then led India to the ultimate of the 2003 ODI World Cup, the place India misplaced to Australia.
In 2005-06, Ganguly skilled powerful instances when his relations with the then coach Greg Chappell strained and he was neglected of the Indian workforce. Nonetheless, he made a well-known comeback to the aspect and performed his final Check in 2008, after which he retired from worldwide cricket as essentially the most profitable India captain at the moment.
Ganguly went on to play the Indian Premier League until 2012.
He featured in 113 Checks and 311 ODIs for India, scoring 18,575 runs in worldwide cricket.
Ganguly went on the turn out to be a cricket administrator, first heading the Cricket Affiliation of Bengal after which happening to turn out to be the president of the Board of Management for Cricket in India.
