Ganguly, for the first time in his Test career, amassed 1,000 runs in a calendar year -- 1,023 runs@63.93, including three centuries and four fifties in nine matches. His man-of-the-match award in the third Test against Pakistan was his first in four years. He last got it for his 144 against Australia at Brisbane in December 2003. He was even more successful in ODIs, aggregating 1,240 runs -- including a dozen half-centuries -- in 32 matches@44.29. His dismissal of Shahid Afridi in the fourth ODI against Pakistan at Jaipur gave him his 100th ODI wicket. He scored 162 runs in three World Cup matches and became only the second Indian batsman, after Sachin Tendulkar, to aggregate more than a thousand runs in the World Cup (1,006).