Factbox on former India captain Sourav Ganguly who announced on Tuesday he would retire from international cricket at the end of the upcoming home Test series against Australia.
Air pollution levels in the national capital escalated to hazardous and visibility dropped significantly
Sourav Ganguly said the empty roads in his home city Kolkata, owing to a nationwide lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, are the kind of scenes he never thought he would witness in his lifetime.
India may have lost Shikhar Dhawan to injury and pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar is ruled out of the next few games, but the team is so strong that despite the setbacks it will qualify for the World Cup semi-finals, reckons former skipper Sourav Ganguly.
Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly will miss the inaugural edition of the Master Cricket League after sustaining a back injury during a practice session.
Former captain Sourav Ganguly believes India will win the upcoming five-match ODI series against Australia but said that a 5-0 whitewash is unlikely against the visitors.
While India's active case count is more than five lakh besides over 36,000 fatalities, Aditya Verma still insisted that creating a bio-bubble in a city like Mumbai will be far more easier than having three separate zones in three UAE cities.
While Sangakkara advises the under-fire keeper-batsman to keep things simple
Sagar said they are hoping that India's wicketkeeper batter will soon make a return and play in IPL 2024
Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly on Thursday said 'we should move on' from the controversy surrounding Hardik Pandya and K L Rahul's sexist comments because he is sure the two will learn from it and become better persons.
'Captains are asked to sit, so just do it. I have done it in Faisalabad. I didn't play an ODI game for 15 months when I was probably the best performer in one-day cricket. It happens in life. The best in the world are at times shown the door'
Echoing national selection committee chairman MSK Prasad's words, former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday said Bengal wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha is ahead of Parthiv Patel in race to play Test cricket.
'Time for all you fans to welcome back Dada who rejoins the DC camp after 4 years, as our Director of Cricket.'
'This is like the Indian team not having Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. It's a huge factor'
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Friday backed current skipper Virat Kohli on the issue of cramped scheduling and said that the team needs more time to prepare for tough assignments like the upcoming tour of South Africa.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly said Mahendra Singh Dhoni did most of the things right in the ICC World T20 semifinal, although the home team lost to the West Indies. "He (Dhoni) has been a great captain for India. Nobody is perfect and I think he has been great," Ganguly said at a panel discussion here. "We all wanted India to go to the T20 World Cup finals and win the Cup but West Indies and England are the two best teams in the competition. "This West Indies side will actually get people on the edge of their seats because of their power and ability," he added. Ganguly insisted that the team, which managed to chase down 193, deserves to be in the finals.
Ganguly said the Indian team perhaps made the mistake of taking Pakistan lightly in the 2017 Champions Trophy final and had to bite the dust.
Yuvraj was not impressed with the hullabaloo around the move
Former captain Sourav Ganguly slammed the Indian team management for not looking after two of its best batsmen, K L Rahul and Ajinkya Rahane, saying constant experimentation in the middle-order is hurting the 'top-heavy' side.
DC is yet to announce Pant's replacement and Ganguly is still undecided on who is better between young turk Abhishek Porel and domestic veteran Sheldon Jackson.
Film folk arrived at the North Bombay Sarbojanin Durga Puja in Mumbai to celebrate the festival with prayers, fashion, dance and bhog.
Sourav Ganguly on Thursday said that he has not thought about his future plan as yet after the Lodha Panel made it clear that he will have to serve a compulsory 'cooling off' period of three years after June if he wants to become an office bearer of the BCCI or the state units.
A five-judge bench of the apex court chaired by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud sat on a holiday to address the dispute where a defiant judge overruled an order of a division bench that had quashed his direction for a CBI probe and asked the central agency to go ahead with the investigation.
Reputations do go for a toss in the T20 format, but Delhi Capitals haven't been able to get past Chennai Super Kings in their last four meetings, and the margins of defeat -- 91, 27 and 77 runs respectively -- does paint a sorry picture.
It's not everyday that the guards of a five-star facility on EM Bypass are taken aback to find City of Joy's most loved icon Sourav Ganguly getting down from yellow ambassador taxi to attend a Board of Control for Cricket in India meeting.
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly was among the first in the Indian sporting fraternity to take to Twitter to pay his tributes to Diego Maradona.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly's father Chandidas Ganguly passed away on Thursday after a prolonged illness.
Ganguly said Kumble seemed to be improving and becoming sharper with time.
DC are currently last in 10-team table with four defeats in a row and it does hurt, admitted the former India skipper.
The 21-year-old Lucknow Super Giants fast bowler has turned heads with his raw pace and razor-sharp control.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who is also a member of the MCC's World Cricket Committee, is not in favour of tinkering with the hugely popular Twenty20 format as mooted by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
A minimum of three-match Test series and the home team footing the bill of the visiting side in a bilateral contest are some of the recommendations made by the MCC's World Cricket Committee.
The Indian batting great was reacting to England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff's criticism in his book 'Being Freddie'.
And proud BCCI chief Sourav Ganguly posted pictures from the city as landmarks were adorned in the bright hue.
India had 'Fab 5' with the bat in early 2000s, now they have them with the ball: Nasser Hussain
My grandfather Ashok Kumar made me sack my secretary as he thought she was a bad influence in my life.'
'One Sandeshkhali won't turn around women's perception of Mamata Banerjee in this state'
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid along with La Liga President Javier Tebas.
A packed day notwithstanding, former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly was flooded with wishes on his 45th birthday.
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