Congrats on crossing the 10,000 run mark in ODIs. I am sure cross many such marks in the future and help India in the same way as you have been doing over the past decade or so. Congrats dada and keep it up!
Saurav Ganguly has been one of the pillars of our ODI team for years now, and he has given us many memorable knocks to cherish. His current accomplishments of making it to the 10K club is fantastic and he deserves a big round of applause for it. But apart from these, there are some negatives as well about Saurav. For instance his recent poor run of form and also if he take his career record, Saurav i guess would be the front-runner for maximum number of dot balls in ODI cricket. This record highlights his inability to rotate the strike and take quick singles, a trait which would have helped any good batsman to regain his form quickly. Hopefully he corrects this or else, we will soon have to address Saurav as a former India player. Once again congrats to Dada for making it to the 10K club.
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by seema on Aug 23, 2006 11:16 AM Permalink
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Public memory is short lived. Most have forgotten the contribution of Sourav. The reaction of Indian cricket fans on his ability while he was going through a lean patch was very unkind. Sourav is an extremely talented cricketer who fought his way into the national side despite the raw deal he received from the people in authority early in his career. Many would have given up. But Sourav did not. He became a proloific run getter and the most successful captain of India. Can anyone deny that he changed the attitude of Team India and had the guts to take on Steve Waugh and the mighty Australians head on. People should not complain that he was ever haughty. He is one of our most polished speakers who does not lack humility either. There had never been any trouble in the team in the five long years of his leadership. The mutual admiration of Sourav, Rahul and Sachin is exemplary. Sourav had always been the whipping boy of the bosses who govern the discipline of the game. He got rough rulings, many times not for his own fault. Yet he did not protest. Racial prejudice is still present in world cricket Sourav should be given the honour to decide when to quit. He is still brilliant
It was a intolerable display by sourav on match against srilanka. to achive 10000 he played 110 ball to 53 with 9 wickets still remaining when he was on crease. and never attempted to increse the run rate. first for 10000 then for his 50. personal goals come before team achivements
It was a Shameful performance by such a great Crickter. 51 runs in 110 balls can hardly be appritiated. He wasted around 60 balls which amounts to 10 overs. On an average of 5 runs per over we could have managed 50 more runs and 270 was surely a winning total.
Dada had the worst ECON RATE than any other indian batsman (Leaving behind Dravid who was out of the first ball) in the same match.
The aggression in his balling that he has when playing as a captain was not present. The final ball of the match which dropped a few yards before Saurav was worth trying for a catch. Either had accepted the defeat or he was not intrested in India's win under Dravid's captancy.
If you see his batting strategy, he always takes too many balls for reaching till 50-60, then he starts improving his ECON RATE and by the time he reaches 100 his ECON is not too bad and if he manages to move further his ECON goes on improving. But the fact is that he rarly reaches 50. So that proves to be a major loss for Indias batting.
The fact that even after getting only 5-6 50s in his last 50 one day matches, his average is still above 40 proves that he was a great Batsman. But so were Sunil, Kapil and many more.
