If Ganguly has 22 hundreds in one dayers, why does he have only 12 hundreds in tests. Why does he average so low against 4 tough nations of the era between 1995 to 2005(with exception of WI moving out of top 4 later on).
Why does Ganguly average around 30 against WI, SA, Pakistan, Australia. Apart from that Ganguly averages 27 in Zimbabwe, 27 in NZ. He was a batsmen of dead flat tracks of India but that too only against Zimbabwe, NZ, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He was fortunate to debut against the weakest English side of 90's where he scored 2 hundreds and when the real test came, he came a cropper.
Test Cricket is the real thing a bowler can test a batsmen with short picth and bouncers and his fielding side doesnt have restrictions.
One day is a batsmen's game, all limitations are imposed on bowlers and fielders. Thats why one day specialists are there, Bevan, Graeme Hick, Symonds and Ganguly were purely one day cricketers.
Gavaskar was not the best one day batsmen but he is remembered cause of his record in Test Cricket. Greenidge, Haynes, Richards, Chappell, etc are still remembered cause of their test record and not one day record.
Test cricket is the real thing, and i hope you check gangulys record yourself before commenting
