Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and
Controversy
By : Saptarshi Sarkar
The wait is over finally! The long wait of
having a book on Sourav Ganguly covering his career end to end is over now!
This must be a treat for all DADA fans and cricket aficionado - a bible for
Dada fans and answer to his naysayers.
And the renowned International publisher
Harper Collins, one of the “Big Five” in the publishing world, head quartered
in New York, is launching the book in India as a tribute to this legendary
persona of Indian cricket.
The book is for serious Ganguly fans and
cricket aficionados as it throws light on Ganguly’s cricket journey through
unique statistics and insight driven analytical treatments.
The potpourri of 18 chapters underlines
many kaleidoscopic sides which were hardly discussed earlier. Add to it many
unique Ganguly photos in various moods in cricket and personal spaces.
Competitively prices at Rs. 299, the Launch
of the book will take place soon. Meanwhile the Ganguly fans and cricket lovers
are privileged to order their pre order copies at 25% discount ( Rs 223) at
Amazon or Flipkart with the book title: Sourav Ganguly: Cricket Captaincy and
Controversy
For India :
Overseas :
The book already achieves many ‘first time’ feathers in its cap.
USP of the book:
1. First time:
a. First time a complete book on the cricketing journey and career of Dada – covering end to end with rich and unique statistics.
b. First time after his retirement, a book on Ganguly from an international publishing house - a kind of “lonely only” one - The only book that covers Sourav’s cricket career end to end – from coronation at Lords in 1996 to his retirement at Nagpur in 2008.
c. First time lights on untold areas - This book throws light on some of the areas ( promising all-rounder, lords of the left handers, relation with Aussies, brand Ganguly etc- which were not much discussed and highlighted earlier with right focus by any mainstream media
2. A statistician’s delight - A whole lot of quite unique and unknown statistics on Ganguly will be shared with authentic treatment – no other books so far provided such breadth and depth of statistical analysis on Sourav Ganguly, encompassing various cricketing aspects. Every chapter will contain pertinent statistics within the chapter so that the relevance of information is well maintained
3. You read cricket history – This book don’t talk on Ganguly per se, it treats the character under the backdrop of the history and greats of the game – once you read Lord of the Left handers, you come to know some of the great names of southpaws from the past with few comparative studies; likewise, when we read Ganguly in the context of Australia and Pakistan – we come to know the past history of Australian cricket or Indo-Pak cricket relation
4. This book is not just for Ganguly fans – rather fans for Indian cricket, who cherish the golden memories of Galacticos (fab five) in ‘90s and millennium. In various chapters, the success stories of Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman came as a natural tribute to their cricket supremacy. So when the book highlights Ganguly from various angles, it also gives due credits to the other contemporary greats of Indian cricket.
