Champions Trophy 2013 will begin on Thursday, June 6, 2013 in England.Let us Look back at some of DADA's Best From the Champions Trophy so far.
ICC Knockout 2000 :
After the Match Fixing Saga in 2000, This was DADA's First Big test with the likes of Young Debutants like Zaheer Khan & Yuvraj Singh in the team.
ICC KnockOut - 1st preliminary quarter final : India vs Kenya
ODI no. 1630 | 2000/01 season
Played at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi
3 October 2000 (50-over match)
Sourav Ganguly Scored a Quickfire 66 vs Kenya & Also Took two Catches.
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ICC KnockOut - 1st quarter final : India vs Australia
ODI no. 1633 | 2000/01 season
Played at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi (neutral venue)
7 October 2000 (50-over match)
Sourav Ganguly Scored 24 Runs & Also Took 2 Catches + a Run Out.
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Watch Here : Sourav Ganguly 24 vs Australia - ICC Knockout Trophy 2000/01
Sourav 'Captain' Ganguly 2 Catches vs Australia - QF - ICC KnockOut Trophy, 2000/01
Highlights - India vs Australia - ICC Knockout 2000/01
Result
India won by 20 Runs
ICC KnockOut - 1st Semi Final: India vs South Africa
ODI no. 1638 | 2000/01 season
Played at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi (neutral venue)
13 October 2000 (50-over match)
Sourav 'Captain' Ganguly Scored a Magnificent 141 & Led from the front. Also took a Catch.
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The favourites ran into a breathtaking innings from Ganguly, who creamed an unbeaten 141 from 142 balls, his 14th hundred in one-day internationals. India were heading for 300 until he lost the strike in the last over, bowled by Donald, which yielded three wickets and just two runs. Ganguly had started temperately, but went airborne when left-arm spinner Boje came on at the halfway stage. Three of his six sixes came during Boje's two overs, which cost 26 runs and opened the floodgates for some rousing strokeplay. Ganguly had one lucky break, on 75, when he guided a Klusener no-ball to backward point. Under pressure to score quickly, South Africa lost their top four inside eight overs. Ganguly then continued his masterclass by dismissing Boucher, their top-scorer, for 60, but his exertions finally caught up with him: fielding at slip, he dropped Boje twice in two balls. Telemachus was later suspended for one game for barging into Dravid.
Man of the Match: S. C. Ganguly.
Videos
Watch Here : Sourav Ganguly Magnificent 141* vs SA - ICC Knockout 2000/01
Sourav 'Captain' Ganguly Takes a Catch to Dismiss Kallis - Semi Finals - ICC KnockOut, 2000/01
Highlights - India vs South Africa - ICC Knockout 2000/01
Result
India won by 95 Runs
ICC KnockOut - Final: India vs New Zealand
ODI no. 1639 | 2000/01 season
Played at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi (neutral venue)
15 October 2000 (50-over match)
Sourav Ganguly again led from the front with a Magnificent 117 unfortunately ended up on the losing side.
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Watch Here : Sourav Ganguly 117 vs NZ - ICC Knockout - 2000/01
ICC Champions Trophy - 2002/03 :
ICC Knockout 2000 :
After the Match Fixing Saga in 2000, This was DADA's First Big test with the likes of Young Debutants like Zaheer Khan & Yuvraj Singh in the team.
ICC KnockOut - 1st preliminary quarter final : India vs Kenya
ODI no. 1630 | 2000/01 season
Played at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi
3 October 2000 (50-over match)
Sourav Ganguly Scored a Quickfire 66 vs Kenya & Also Took two Catches.
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STATS
Ganguly's two catches equaled the best performance by an Indian fieldsman in a match against Kenya. Anil Kumble (at Gwalior on 28-05-1998) and Hrishikesh Kanitkar (at Calcutta on 31-05-1998) also held two catches.
Videos
Watch Here : Sourav Ganguly 66 vs Kenya - ICC Knockout 2000/01
Result
India won by 8 Wickets.
ICC KnockOut - 1st quarter final : India vs Australia
ODI no. 1633 | 2000/01 season
Played at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi (neutral venue)
7 October 2000 (50-over match)
Sourav Ganguly Scored 24 Runs & Also Took 2 Catches + a Run Out.
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Videos
Watch Here : Sourav Ganguly 24 vs Australia - ICC Knockout Trophy 2000/01
Sourav 'Captain' Ganguly 2 Catches vs Australia - QF - ICC KnockOut Trophy, 2000/01
Highlights - India vs Australia - ICC Knockout 2000/01
Result
India won by 20 Runs
ICC KnockOut - 1st Semi Final: India vs South Africa
ODI no. 1638 | 2000/01 season
Played at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi (neutral venue)
13 October 2000 (50-over match)
Sourav 'Captain' Ganguly Scored a Magnificent 141 & Led from the front. Also took a Catch.
Pics :
Match Report :
The favourites ran into a breathtaking innings from Ganguly, who creamed an unbeaten 141 from 142 balls, his 14th hundred in one-day internationals. India were heading for 300 until he lost the strike in the last over, bowled by Donald, which yielded three wickets and just two runs. Ganguly had started temperately, but went airborne when left-arm spinner Boje came on at the halfway stage. Three of his six sixes came during Boje's two overs, which cost 26 runs and opened the floodgates for some rousing strokeplay. Ganguly had one lucky break, on 75, when he guided a Klusener no-ball to backward point. Under pressure to score quickly, South Africa lost their top four inside eight overs. Ganguly then continued his masterclass by dismissing Boucher, their top-scorer, for 60, but his exertions finally caught up with him: fielding at slip, he dropped Boje twice in two balls. Telemachus was later suspended for one game for barging into Dravid.
Man of the Match: S. C. Ganguly.
Videos
Watch Here : Sourav Ganguly Magnificent 141* vs SA - ICC Knockout 2000/01
Sourav 'Captain' Ganguly Takes a Catch to Dismiss Kallis - Semi Finals - ICC KnockOut, 2000/01
Highlights - India vs South Africa - ICC Knockout 2000/01
Result
India won by 95 Runs
ICC KnockOut - Final: India vs New Zealand
ODI no. 1639 | 2000/01 season
Played at Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi (neutral venue)
15 October 2000 (50-over match)
Sourav Ganguly again led from the front with a Magnificent 117 unfortunately ended up on the losing side.
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Saurav Ganguly scored his 15th ODI hundred in 149th match. Now only Sachin Tendulkar (25), Saeed Anwar (19) and Desmond Haynes (17) have scored more ODI hundreds than Ganguly.
Ganguly became the third Indian to score back to back hundreds. He had scored an unbeaten 141 against South Africa on October 13. Others to do so for India are Sachin Tendulkar who scored 143 and 134 against Australia at Sharjah on 22-04-1998 and 24-04-1998 and Rahul Dravid who scored an unbeaten 100 against Kenya at Bristol on 23-05-1999 and 145 against Sri Lanka at Taunton on 26-05-1999.
The hundred was Ganguly's fourth as skipper. He thus equals Mohammad Azharuddin's tally of hundreds as Indian skipper. Only Sachin Tendulkar has made more hundreds than Ganguly in this role for India - six in 73 matches.
Ganguly has now extended his tally of runs to 1210 in the year 2000 in just 23 matchesmost for any batsman.
Videos
Watch Here : Sourav Ganguly 117 vs NZ - ICC Knockout - 2000/01
ICC Champions Trophy - 2002/03 :
ICC Champions Trophy - 3rd match, Pool 2 - India v Zimbabwe
ODI no. 1876 | 2002/03 season
Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (neutral venue)
14 September 2002 - day/night (50-over match)
Sourav Ganguly Scored 13 runs & Took two Catches.
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Watch Here : Sourav Ganguly 13 vs Zimbabwe - ICC CT - 2002/03
Result
India won by 14 Runs
ICC Champions Trophy - 11th match, Pool 2 - India v England
ODI no. 1884 | 2002/03 season
Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (neutral venue)
22 September 2002 - day/night (50-over match)
Sourav Ganguly Led from the Front with a Glorious 117* whereas Sehwag scored 126.
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Watch Here : Sourav Ganguly 117* vs England - ICC CT - 2002/03
Result
India won by 8 wickets
ICC Champions Trophy - Semi Finals - India v South Africa
ODI no. 1886 | 2002/03 season
Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (neutral venue)
25 September 2002 - day/night (50-over match)
Sourav Ganguly scored 13 Runs.
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Watch Here: Sourav Ganguly 13 vs SA - ICC CT - 2002/03
Result
India won by 10 Runs
ICC Champions Trophy - Finals - India v Sri Lanka
ODI no. 1888 | 2002/03 season
Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
29 September 2002 - day/night (50-over match)
Match Rained Out after Sri Lanka's Innings.
Re-Match the next Day.
ODI no. 1889 | 2002/03 season
Played at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
30 September 2002 - day/night (50-over match)
Again Rained out after Sri Lanks's Innings.CT Shared
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ICC Champions Trophy - 2004
ICC Champions Trophy - 3rd match, Pool C - India v Kenya
ODI no. 2170 | 2004 season
Played at The Rose Bowl, Southampton (neutral venue)
11 September 2004 (50-over match)
Sourav Ganguly Scored a magnificent 90 & also took two catches. Dada was Adjudged Man of the Match.
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Result
India won b 98 Runs
STATS & Records of Sourav Ganguly in Champions Trophy History
Sourav Ganguly has the most number of runs for an Indian batsmen in CT.
With 665 runs he is the second best while gayle with 695 tops the table.
Sourav Ganguly(141* vs SA) Holds the record for Highest Individual runs by an Indian Captain.
Herschelle Gibbs, Sourav Ganguly and Chris Gayle have scored most number of 100s in Champions Trophy cricket - 3 each.
Sourav Ganguly Tops the Batting Average List with a Whopping Avg of 73.88
Sourav Ganguly with 17 Sixes Tops the table of Most No. of Sixes
Sourav Ganguly with 12 Catches Leads the chart for most catches by an Indian.
Sourav Ganguly holds the record for Most Sixes(6) by an Indian in an innings .
Sourav Ganguly was the Leading Scorer in the ICC Knockout Cup - 2000/01 with 348 Runs in 4 matches.
Sourav Ganguly Has Lead India on 11 occasions in CT and has won 7 with 2 rained out games. Winning % of 77.77
