Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (Bengali: সৌরভ গাঙ্গুলী) (pronunciation ) (first name occasionally spelt Saurav) is an Indian cricketer. Born 8 July 1972, lives at Barisha in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, West Bengal, he made his One Day International debut against Australia in 1992, and a Test debut versus England in 1996. He went on to become the captain of Indian cricket team from 2000 to 2005. He has led India to the World Cup 2003 finals, and holds the Indian captaincy record for the most Test victories. Following an exit from the national team in early 2006, he was recalled to the Indian Test side in December, staging a successful comeback in the 2006 - 2007 Indian tour of South Africa.
Records
Test
- Scored a century on Test debut
- Scored a century in each of his first two Tests
- Captained India in a record 49 Test matches
- Led India to a record 21 Test wins
- India's most successful Test captain
ODIs
- Second fastest player to reach 10,000 ODI runs
- Fastest to reach multiples of 7,000, 8,000, 9,000 ODI Runs
- Holds the record, shared with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the second highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI — 183, against Sri Lanka in 1999.
- Held the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for the highest first wicket partnership for India in a ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001. This record was bettered by Sri Lankan opening pair of Jayasuriya and Tharanga in 2006 at Headingly.
- Was involved in the first 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid.
- Sixth 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.
- India's most successful ODI captain.
- First Indian to score a ODI century against Australia in Australia.
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