Friday, October 06, 2006

can Ganguly come back???

Records

Test
Scored a Century on his test debut
Scored a Century in each of his first two tests
Cummulative Test batting average never dipped below 40 runs per innings
Captained India in record 49 test matches
Led India to record 21 test wins

ODIs
Holds the record, shared with Mahendra Dhoni, for the second highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI — 183, against Sri Lanka in 1999, although he was out while Dhoni remained not-out.
Holds the record, shared with Sachin, for the highest first wicket partnership for India in a ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001.
Was involved in the First 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid
6th on the all time list with 30 man of the match awards
He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive man of the match awards in ODIs

He is the third player to cross 10,000 ODI runs
Sourav can bowl medium-pacers as well, but has under-achieved in this aspect in Test matches, taking 25 wickets in 84 matches, at an average of 52.47

As of 2006, he is the only Indian captain to win a Test series in Pakistan.


Controversies
Ganguly is a temperamental player and has often attracted controversy. He has attracted the wrath of match referrees quite a few times. Ganguly's performance in the last couple of seasons has been really poor. This put his place in the Indian team under pressure. And more so abt the Greg Chappel controversy.

But the question is ...will he be able to come back? this question is the most difficult to answer in the history of Indian cricket till date ....

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