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Awards Former Captain of the Indian Cricket Team, Sourav Ganguly has been adjudged as the Asian Cricketer and Asian Batsman of the Year for his performance after his fighting comeback into the team, at the Castrol Asian Cricket Awards at a function held in Karachi on June 27. Ganguly has had a series of successful innings during his memorable comeback to the Indian Cricket Team during the South African tour of 2006-07.For his overall battling performances during the year, he also received the overall Castrol Asian Batsman of the Year Award. This aggressive Indian batsman had given outstanding battling performances after his memorable comeback to the Indian Team.
Other Indian Players Besides Ganguly, the other three Indians who were also awarded in the function were Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh. Sachin was adjudged the best ODI Batsman while Gautam Gambhir grabbed the honor in Twenty20. Yuvraj Singh was given a special award for hitting six sixes off a Stuart Broad over in the ICC Twenty20 World Cup.
Career Ganguly played his first international one day cricket match against West Indians at Brisbane in 1992 and then was forgotten for four years. It was only in1996 that luck surprised him when he played in the first international test match of his career because the some of the players had got injured. In the second match at Lord’s he blasted a superb century. In the same year he was promoted to the top of the order on the OdIs, along with Sachin Tendulkar, thus forming one of the most destructive opening pairs in the world Cricket history.
Captain After the match-fixing exposed in 2000, he was named captain of the Indian Cricket team. Under his captaincy India own in 21 of the 49 test matches. He is considered to be the most successful captain of Indian. He was captain of Indian Cricket Team from 2000-05. Ganguly is the second among Indiana after Sachin Tendulkar who has in terms of overall runs scored. He has scored 15 centuries in test matches and 22 in ODIs. Under his captaincy Indian cricket team had reached the final of the 2003 World Cup. His score of 183 runs against Sri Lanka in the 1999 World Cup is a, second highest in world cup history and the highest by an Indian. Ganguly’s one of the most important contributions to the Indian cricket is that he made the team more aggressive and put them to the winning habit.
