Sourav Ganguly – Cricket in India is not just a sport, but a religion. Since the 90’s, the game is one of the most favored talks in each & every Indian home. In a country of 133 crores people, where almost everyone is crazy about cricket, just breaking into the national team remains a dream for many.

India, as a motherland, has given birth to many such legends who have carved out a special mention in the history books. Fans see them in high regards and treat them with the utmost love and admiration.

One such name is Sourav Ganguly, popularly known as “DADA” in India.

Was there ever any doubt? A few have come close, but Sourav Ganguly validated cricket as the satisfaction game of young energy and fused to pump it up in all fellow team members. Be it opening the innings, going down the order, or making a place for a newcomer, the veteran never kept anything hidden and lead the team fluent to the major cricketing games like Champions Trophy, Asia Cup, World Cup, and the famous NatWest Series (2003). Not just Indians, players and fans from all around the world have all respect for our “Gentleman Captain.”

Many of the co-players believe that DADA treated every player on his own merit. His way of selecting every player has been good enough and deserved a place. In the process, one is bound to make a few mistakes, and surely it was for Sourav Ganguly also. It does not matter. It has happened to every captain in history. It will happen also in the future. But what mattered was that your intention had to be right.

When Sourav Ganguly announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, a gnawing of soul descended into the gentleman’s game. Never again will the ‘Maharaja of Cricket’ be seen on the 22 yards, marshaling his troops and playing that elegant cover drive. DADA has also seen a huge debacle in the IPL fame after the IPL6 season, where he was not opted by any IPL franchisees.

Achievements

• In 1998 Ganguly was named Sportstar Person of the Year. Sportster is a prestigious sports magazine.

• In the same year (1998) Ganguly won the Arjuna Award for his outstanding performance.

• In 2000 Ganguly won the CEAT cricketer of the year award.

• In 2001-2002 Ganguly won the CEAT Captain of the year award for his outstanding display

• In 2004 he won the Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian award in India, for his outstanding contribution to cricket.

• Rammohan Roy award in 2004 for his outstanding leadership skill as captain.

• In 2001-2002 Eden Test in Kolkata, under the leadership of Ganguly India broke Australia’s unbeaten Test match winning record.

• Ganguly is the fourth best skipper in the World Cup. He has led India in 11 matches and lost only two. His winning percentage is 81.81 percent. He is only behind of Ricky Ponting, Clive Llyod, and MS Dhoni.

• He is India’s most successful Indian captain on overseas conditions with 11 wins.

• Ganguly is the only cricketer who won four consecutive men of the match in ODI cricket.

• One of the five cricketers who scored 10000 runs, 100 wickets and 100 catches in ODI cricket.

• The fastest batsman to score 9000 runs in ODI.

What Sourav Ganguly feels about “Indian Captaincy in his reign”:

My greatest achievement as a captain was that the team truly became resilient during my tenure. Toughening them up was part of the winner-takes-all strategy.

 Reasons for Sourav Ganguly sudden decline (Major)

It was an era, when Greg Chappell was Indian Coach and Sourav Ganguly was Indian Captain. Ganguly wasn’t going through a great phase as a batsman, as well as a leadership captain. He had not performed well in that series, after which the whole incident of Greg asking Ganguly to step down from the captaincy became public. Greg was just pissed off because he wasn’t able to call the shots and Ganguly was the actual boss. The result came out, as Ganguly was removed as a captain and then eventually dropped from the team.

However, Sourav Ganguly was a lone fighter which roared and made a comeback and what a comeback it was. He was the leading run scorer for India in both tests and Odis with over 1000 runs in both the formats in 2006–07.

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Indian cricketers controversies – Among many other Cricket loving countries, India holds a significant position for its unflinching enthusiasm towards this sport.

No wonder, since the Indian Cricket team has left no stone unturned to make us proud in the World forefront with their ground-breaking performances in quick succession.

Also, Indian cricket has reared many legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, Sourav Ganguly whose success speaks volumes. But Cricket was never free from controversies, the ones that made fodder for media. In that time around, these controversies made headlines and we forgot them in the turn of years.

So, to remind you of those again, here are some handpicked references of the controversies our Cricketers got embroiled in:

Indian cricketers controversies –

1 – Gautam Gambhir controversy:

Gautam Gambhir landed in a heated argument with Shahid Afridi during the third ODI against Pakistan in Kanpur (2007). The two players running into each other while Gambhir trying to score a single sparked up the brawl. This led to fining Afridi and ambhir 95% and 65% respectively of their match fees as they used profanity against each other.

2 – Sourav Ganguly controversy:

He had a sweltering relationship with the filmstar Nagma which got him into controversy. She actress was said to have accompanied ‘Prince of Kolkata’ to the Srikalahasti temple in Chittoor to perform Sarpdosha puja’ before the important 2001 Test Series against Australia. When it came in the knowledge of media, Sourav landed in a soup.

3 – MS Dhoni controversy:

He deemed to have have belittled Lord Vishnu in 2015 as he posed in the attire of the Lord in an advertisement. This prompted people to register a case against him in Bengaluru court for having hurt the religious sentiments of the Hindus. The Supreme court however didn’t reprimand ‘Captain cool’ and quashed the case on September 5, 2016 citing that the procedure was not potent enough for initiating such a criminal case against ‘Captain cool’.

4 – Virat Kohli:

Virat Kohli has impulsive anger and driven by which he reportedly abused an Indian journo in Perth during the 2015 ICC World Cup who reportedly have written a misinformed article about him and his girlfriend Anushka. Later, upon realizing that he abused the wrong guy, he made no delays in apologizing to him.

5 – S Sreesanth controversy:

This Kerala pacer is deemed as the king of controversies who landed in trouble in June 2012 after one of his co-passengers accused him of his loutish behaviour while onboard. It was said that Sreesanth behaved ungentlemanly with the flight attendants for not letting him sit near the emergency exit. However, the claims were later rubbished by the temperamental pacer.

6 – Harbhajan Singh controversy:

He, going against his religious decorum, uncovered his hair in an advertisement. He later apologised to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the zenith religious body of Sikhs, claiming that he didn’t hurt the religious sentiments deliberately.

7 – Virender Shehwag Controversy:

While after the phenomenal win of Indian Cricket Team after in the 2011 T20 World Cup, all of the nation was lauding Captain Dhoni, Virender Shehwag, the swashbuckling batsman claimed that Dhoni’s captaincy didn’t bear any significance in the win, the strong team should win the cake. Of course, this outrageous statement didn’t go down well with the nation and he landed in controversy.

These are Indian cricketers controversies – We guess you are now very well reminded of these controversies. Aren’t you?

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West Indies were the underdogs entering in their match against India yesterday during the World Cup.

As expected, India beat them, but in a fashion that cricket fans would not call convincing.

India vs West Indies was played on 6th March

India versus West Indies was played at the WACA, Perth, where the team from the Caribbean won the toss and elected to bat first.

Even before the match began, the experts predicted the game to be not a high-scoring one, for the WACA pitch is considered as one of the quickest and bounciest tracks in the world.

For the West Indies to score big, Chris Gayle had to be in top form. The southpaw decided to go out all guns blazing, in the course of which he was dropped thrice by the Indian fielders. He was eventually caught in the deep for 21 by Mohit Sharma off a Mohammed Shami bouncer.

Mohammed Shami claimed the wicket of Chris Gayle

What followed this dismissal was a sorry state for the Caribbean team, as their batting line-up fell like a pack of cards. The only player to show some form of resistance was their captain Jason Holder, who scored 57 off 64 balls.

West Indies were all out for 182 runs; coincidentally, the target, 183, was the exact number team India had scored back in 1983 to win the Prudential Cup against the same opponent.

Knowing the nature of the WACA pitch, the Indians would have known that even chasing 183 would appear daunting. And that is what happened!

Jerome Taylor bowled his heart out getting rid of the openers. Unfortunately, his quota of 10 overs was not completed and he ended up with the figures of 8-0-33-2. Andre Russell was the second successful bowler (43-2).

Jerome Taylor and Andre Russell were the most successful West Indian bowlers

Virat Kohli did manage to steady the Indian batting after the fall of the two openers, but he was dismissed for 33 runs by Russell.

‘Captain Cool’ MS Dhoni remained unbeaten on 45 runs at the end of the innings along with Ravichandran Ashwin (16 runs off 32 balls).

Indian managed to beat the West Indies by 4 wickets with 10.5 overs remaining.

India defeated West Indies by 4 wickets

This defeat was special for team India and for MS Dhoni, as they earned a few accolades –

India became the first team to qualify for the quarter-finals from Group B

The win over West Indies gave India its eighth consecutive win in the World Cups. In the process, India equalled the win tally it had achieved back in the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup

MS Dhoni became the most successful captain away from home (59 wins), surpassing Sourav Ganguly’s record of 58 wins overseas.

India has now won all its matches in this year’s World Cup. During the press conference, Dhoni explained that now all came down to the knockout stage.

“It will be important how well we play on that particular day, especially going into the knockout stages. I feel all the teams are nicely poised. All of them have the right combination and have clicked well. It is a really balanced World Cup. We just need to keep doing what we are doing right, and take it one game at a time.”

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