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He led India into the 2003 World Cup final, where they were defeated by Australia.

He was the fastest batsman to reach 9,000 ODI runs which was broke by AB De Villiers of South Africa in 2017.

India's most successful Test captain overseas, winning 11 out of 28 matches that he led.

He has the highest individual score by an Indian batsman (183) in the Cricket World Cup.

Sourav Ganguly is the only batsman to score a century on debut and to be dismissed first ball in his final Test innings.

In 2002, the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the sixth greatest ODI batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Dean Jones and Michael Bevan.

Ganguly is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national team, Currently, he is appointed as the President of the Cricket Association of Bengal.

He is the only cricketer to win four consecutive man of the match awards in One Day Internationals.

His playing influences were Kapil Dev, David Gower, Mohinder Amarnath and Allan Border.

Was appointed President of the Board of Cricket Control in India in 2021.

In tests, he was most successful when facing England, New Zealand and Sri Lanka scoring 3 centuries each followed by Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Australia against each of whom he registered 2 tons. He couldn't score a century against either South Africa or the West Indies.

At the time he reached his 10000th run in ODIs during the 2005 season, he was only the third batsman to have scaled the landmark as of then, the others being fellow Indian Sachin Tendulkar and Pakistan's Inzamam-Ul-Haq.

35th president of the Board Of Control For Cricket In India from 23rd October, 2019 till 18th October, 2022.

Despite being widely considered India's most hard edged skipper, Ganguly's form as a specialist batsman plummeted during his captaincy as noted by the fact he averaged only 37.66 in the 49 tests he was at the helm of the Indian team but a highly respectable 46.44 in the 64 tests he wasn't captain.