Pics : Sourav Ganguly - The Commentator/Analyst in ICC Champions Trophy - 2013

Sourav Ganguly - The Cricket Commentator/Analyst is Back in ICC Champions Trophy - 2013. Here we will bring you exclusive Pics throughout.

India vs Australia - Warm up Game - June 4th, 2013

                       India vs South Africa - June 6th, 2013

June 8, 2013 - England vs Australia at Birmingham

June 11, 2013 - India vs WestIndies at Oval

India vs Pakistan - June 15th, 2013

Gang of four at the Edgbaston press box- from left- Boria Majumdar, Sourav Ganguly, Gautam Bhattacharyya and Sabyasachi Sarkar

England vs South Africa  - June 19th, 2013

India vs SriLanka - June 29th, 2013

India vs England - Finals - June 23, 2013

DADA in BBC TMS

Also See : Sourav Ganguly Hands Over Golden Ball/Bat to - Dhawan & Jaddu - CT Finals 2013

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What Sourav Ganguly Spoke at the Press Conference Re: Match Fixing - May 24, 2000

After MS Dhoni's Muted Preeser Yesterday re: Fixing, Many wanted to know what DADA Spoke re: it in his Presser way back in 2000. Here it is.

CALCUTTA, May 24 (UNI) — Indian captain Saurav Ganguly has exuded confidence that India will put up a superlative performance in the coming Asia Cup Cricket Championship in Dhaka from May 28.

Saurav, who returned here last night after attending the selection committee meeting at Pune, said: “If all of us can play to our potential, we will return victorious from Dhaka.” Saurav joined the Pune meeting straight from England after his stint at the county cricket.

“The players chosen for the Asia Cup are the best in the country at the moment, and so the Asia Cup should not be a difficult proposition for us,” Saurav said.

Asked whether current Indian bowling strength would be enough to tackle top teams like Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the Indian skipper said “we have to do with whatever is available to us. This is the best Indian side at the moment.”

Saurav felt “the wicket at Dhaka is a batting one and our batting line-up is quite good. In the match between Asia eleven and Rest of the World eleven held in Dhaka during last April, the score was three hundred plus. If the wicket remains the same, much would depend on batting, which would decide the fate of the match in Asia Cup. And in this respect, we are not behind Pakistan or Sri Lanka,” Saurav opined.

Saurav said he did not subscribe to the view that the Indian team would be in distress if he or Sachin did not get runs. He said, “we have a very strong batting line-up with Rahul Dravid, Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja. All of them were very experienced and quite capable of tackling difficult situations.”

“I am quite hopeful that our batting will click in Dhaka,” the stylish southpaw added.

Regarding the ongoing betting and match fixing controversy, Saurav said it would not affect Indian team’s performance in the Asia Cup. Saurav said “I don’t know about other teams, but our players won’t get affected by the unsubstantiated allegations.”

“Whatever any person may say, I personally feel that the most important thing is to be honest to your ownself. If you are honest to your own conscience, no allegation would be able to touch you. In the field we should only concentrate on cricket,” he said.

Saurav admitted that there could be allegations of match fixing if a player missed a vital catch or got run out at the crucial moment and said, “we can’t help it. The only way to tackle this is by performing one’s duties and not listening to allegations.” Until the allegations are proved, one can’t come to any conclusion. We cannot call anybody guilty unless the allegations are proved,” Saurav commented.

Regarding his stint at the county matches in England, Saurav said it would help him to mature further as a batsman. “The standard of county cricket in England is better than the first class matches in India. It is indeed difficult to adjust to the extreme cold there initially. I’m enjoying it now. Moreover, the presence of former Australian Test star and manager Bobby Simpson also helping me a lot. I would be more experienced and matured at the end of the season,” Saurav felt. 

Source : http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000525/sports.html

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BEST of Sourav Ganguly in ICC Champions Trophy - STATS + Pics + Videos

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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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.

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Watch Here : Sourav Ganguly 66 vs Kenya - ICC Knockout 2000/01

Sourav 'Captain' Ganguly Takes a Catch to dismiss Suji - 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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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

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                                          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.

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 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


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                                       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.

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       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

Classic Finish - India 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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India - Srilanka Share CT Trophy - 2002/03

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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Sourav Ganguly 90 vs Kenya - ICC CT - 2004

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

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