Sourav Chandidas Ganguly is an Indian cricket administrator, commentator and former national cricket team captain. He is the 39th and current president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. As a cricketer he played as a left-handed opening batsman and was captain of the Indian national team. He retired from international cricket in 2007 after a series of poor performances against Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. He currently works as a cricket commentator for India’s national television channel, Zee Sports.
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Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (born 8 July 1972) is an Indian cricket administrator, commentator and former national cricket team captain. He is the 39th and current president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. As a cricketer he played as a left-handed opening batsman and was captain of the Indian national team. Ganguly is regarded as one of India’s most successful captains in modern times, and one of the greatest ODI batsmen of all time. In 2002, the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack ranked him the sixth greatest OODI batsman of all-time, next to Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Dean Jones and Michael Bevan. In 2004, Ganguly was awarded the Padma Shri award, India’s highest civilian award. He was also the co-owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders, a Indian Super League franchise, which won the inaugural season in 2014. In 2013, he was appointed a part of the Supreme Court’s probe panel for the IPL Spot fixing and betting scandal. He has a son, Shri Shri Ganguly, who was born in 1972 and is the youngest son of Calcutta-born former Indian cricketers Ravi Shastri and Satyadev Choudhury. He also has a daughter, Shraddha, who is also a former Indian international cricket player and is a television presenter and cricket pundit. He retired from international cricket in 2007 after a series of poor performances against Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. He played for the Bengal team and was appointed the chairman of the Cricket Association of Bengal’s Cricket Development Committee.
In 2008, he became the captain for the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament in 2008. In 2010, he announced his retirement from international football. He currently works as a cricket commentator for India’s national television channel, Zee Sports. His son is a former India cricket captain, and he has been involved in a number of match-fixing scandals, including that of the 2002 NatWest Series in which he was accused of taking off his shirt in the final of the Natwest Series. In 2011, he won the Padmashri award for his role in the IPl Twenty20 tournament win over the Chennai Super League. In 2012, he received the Bibhutibhushan Banga award from the Government of West Bengal for his contribution to the development of cricket in the state. In 2014, he took up the post of President of Cricket Association of Bengal, and was elected as the President of the BCCI in 2019. He will also be a member of the Editorial Board of Wisden India, and the Cricket Board of India, as well as the Cricket Advisory Board of the ICC and the ICC Board of Cricket in the UK and Australia. In the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he formed a partnership of 318 runs with Rahul Dravid, which remains the highest overall partnership score in the World Cup tournament history.
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