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FamilDad's Name : Chandi Das GangulyWife's Name :Dona Ganguly Send hi o a fiend

Heritage

Ganguly was born to a life of luxury and comfort as he was the son of an affluent printer. Ganguly is perhaps one of the richest

Indian cricketer of recent times. Ganguly's father presides over a big joint family of over 50 people, though they all do not live in

the same house. There are 22 bedrooms in his house, and the family possesses over 20 cars.

His first step towards cricketGanguly's first step towards cricket was a happy accident of fate: Ganguly was not encouraged to play cricket because his

parents wanted him to focus on his studies. But his elder brother Snehasish was an accomplished cricketer. He was a left-

hander so Sourav simply followed his brother and started playing with left hand. It was convenient for him because he could thus

use his brother's cricket equipment; for his fans, it was a blessed stroke of luck, for the joys of the left-handed drive in cricket

surpass almost everything else. One fine day during his holidays, Sourav asked his father to get him enrolled in a cricket

academy as he was finding difficult to pass his time.

Setbacks

An under-15 Orissa cricket team happened to be in Calcutta, and Sourav happened to smash them with a century. Young

Sourav had found his mtier. But the pain was yet to come. A hundred (121) for East Zone against West Zone in the Duleep

Trophy in 1991 earned Sourav a place on the tour of Australia in 1991-92. He was played in only one One-day International

match and was then forgotten for over four years. He thought that his career as an international cricketer was over as he was

ridiculed as a non-talent, and it was alleged that he had 'attitude problems'. They said he refused to carry drinks for his

teammates, he was too high-headed and arrogant, he behaved like a Maharaja, an emperor. None of it was true, says Sourav.

But the labels stuck, and Sourav was a forgotten man. He was left alone to sort out his career, and to reinforce his shattered

confidence, with some help from an English rugby team sports psychologist.

Success at last !

But fate had more surprises in store. Sourav was chosen to tour England with the Indian team in 1996. Navjot SinghSidhu, his

roommate on the tour, chose to walk out of the team after a misunderstanding with captain Azharuddin, while Sanjay Manjrekar

was injured. Sourav thus got a chance to make his Test debut. There was a crescendo of criticism on his selection for the tour;

that the Bengal lobby was at the base of his inclusion was the harsh and unanimous verdict. But all that lasted only till the

second Test at Lord's where he blasted a superb century.

As a person

Sourav Ganguly is a quiet, unassuming, undemonstrative man with nerves of steel. As the current captain of the team, Ganguly's

aggressive batting and big scores testify to the fact that he has learnt to deal with pressure and the burden of leading the countrydoes not constraint him. In fact, the responsibility seems to have had an encouraging effect; he is beginning to emerge from the

shadow of Sachin Tendulkar. Sourav is a deeply religious person and observes a fast every Tuesday.

His marriage

He is married to Dona, who was a next-door neighbour to the Ganguly family. Their fathers were once friends but the

relationship was strained and the young couple got married under cover. It was a typical Hindi movie love story where the hero

and heroine are separated by their parents and so they run off to get married. And like the movie ends their families too

reconciled but only in the end i.e. after the marraige.

His first love

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Yo all ill be pied o kno ha 'Fooball' i Saa' fi loe. He plaed fo hi chool fooball eam fo fo ea. B

ince hee ee no man opponiie in fooball, he hifed o cicke. Thi hif of game a becae of hi fahe, ho

made him join a cicke coaching clb. Hi fahe M. Chandi Gangl had alo plaed fo he ae.

Hi Sece

No e ill ell o a piae habi of o faoie cickee.............The fi hing Saa doe afe he check ino a hoel

oom i o place he poai of godde Kali and he pice of hi ife Dona on hi bed ide able. Fo hi Bengal Tige heei nohing moe elaing han aching Dona (hi ife ho i a claical dance)pefom a dance oine.

Achieements

Gangl a appoined he Capain of he Indian cicke eam in Feba, 2000.

Gangl a he Man of he Seie in he Ne Zealand-India 5 mach ODI eie in Noembe 1999.Gangl made a mammoh 183 again Si Lanka in Wold Cp 1999, hich, a ha ime, a he Highe ODI Scoe b an

Indian, beaing Kapil De' Recod of 175*.

Gangl a he Man of he Seie in he Pepi Cp 1999 (Mach-Apil) fo coing 278 n and aking 6 icke in oal.

Saa Gangl ha he diincion of being one of he fe plae in he Wold o Scoe a cen and ake 4 icke in he

ame mach. (ODI)

Saa Gangl along ih Tendlka fom he 4h Be Opening Pai in he Hio of One-da cicke.

Saa Gangl and Tendlka ee inoled in a Wold Recod Opening Panehip of 252.

Saa Gangl coed a Cen on Deb a Lod in 1996, and en on o coe a cen in he e ne mach a ell.

Saa Gangl a named Spo a Peon of he Yea 1998. He alo on he Ajna Aad in 1998.

Saa Gangl a he Highe Rn-Scoe fo India in ODI in 1997.

In he Sahaa Cp 1997, Saa Gangl e a ne Wold Recod fo 5 conecie Man of he Mach Aad. He a alo heMan of he Seie.

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