Factoids :

vMore than 15000 runs in international cricket

 

vMore than 10000 runs in one day international –bettered only by Sachin and Inzamam

   ul Haque

 

v22 centuries in one day cricket – the second-highest amount of centuries by any ODI player next to Sachin tendulkar's 34 century .

 

v12 centuries in test cricket

 

vMost successful Indian captain –21 tests win in 49 captaincy –next best is far behind , 

   Md Azharuddin -14 win in 47 matches.

 

vHe has captained India in the highest number of Tests (49).

 

vHe is the only Indian Captain to win both the One Day and Test Series

  on Pakistani soil- Victory in Pakistan - India's first away from home in 11 years

 

vFirst Indian captain to win a one-day series in the West

 

vFirst Indian captain to win a series in recent Zimbabwe tour 

 

vUnder sourav's stewardship, splendid eight-match winning streak took

 indian team all the way to the World Cup final in 2003 after a long hiatus of

 20 odd years

 

vGanguly was named Sport Star Person of the Year 1998 and won the Arjuna Award in the same year.

 

vHe became only the third cricketer ever to score a century on debut at Lord's after Harry Graham and John Hampshire

 

vHe scored 183 against Sri Lanka at Taunton in the 1999 cricket World Cup,

   the highest by an Indian in World Cup cricket.

 

v18 of the ODI centuries have been in winning causes.

 

vSachin –Sourav combo: His opening partnership with Tendulkar is the most successful ever in one-day cricket. This pair has the highest number of century partnership (16) for the first wicket. They together have scored 5308 runs at an average of 45.37