can you tell anything about childhood of saurav ganguly?

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can you tell anything about childhood of saurav ganguly

Answer 1

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly was born on July 8, 1973 into a sports-loving family. He was also born into immense wealth.

His father, Chandidas Ganguly who would go onto to be the treasurer and secretary of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) ran a flourishing printing business that helped make the family one of the richest in Kolkata.

Few Indian cricketers outside royalty have been born with the proverbial silver spoon in their mouth as Ganguly was.

The foreign media have depicted Ganguly as living in a palatial mansion with dozens of rooms and luxury cars.

That is indeed a fact. But only because the Ganguly family follows the traditional joint family system and each family within the household have their own rooms and cars.

Brother Snehasish (an accomplished left handed batsman for Bengal and East Zone) was born five years earlier and was nicknamed Raj while Sourav’s is Maharaj, both royal titles and common nicknames for older and younger sons in Bengali families.

Within the team he is known as Dada, Bengali for elder brother and a term of respect.

With finances no problem, the father was able to provide an indoor multi-gym and concrete wicket at home for his sons. They would also watch cricket videos, particularly those of their idol and fellow left-hander David Gower.

It was shortly after his first representative century for the Bengal under-15 team that he was elevated to the captaincy of the prestigious St. Xavier’s School.

According to his coach, the former Bengal player Raju Mukherji the tradition at the school had been to pick the captain by consensus. However this time Mukherji felt Sourav should be an automatic choice.

“Some of the other boys objected, claiming he was arrogant. But when the topic was raised before the Principal, Father Bouche his immediate reaction was “of course it has to be Ganguly.””

He was just 19 when he was a surprise choice for the tour to Australia in 1991-92 which consisted of five Test matches, the one-day tri-series also involving the West Indies, followed by the World Cup.

Ganguly’s opportunities were somewhat limited and he was not retained for the World Cup.

During the tour, sections of the Indian media were reportedly fed information (or misinformation) about Ganguly and his alleged “attitude problems” by the administrative manager, Ranbir Singh Mahendra, the secretary of the Haryana Cricket Association.

These pertained to Ganguly’s apparent reluctance to carry out regular 12th man chores such as taking the drinks onto the field and also handling equipment such as shoes.

The word was, he considered such tasks to be menial and beneath his dignity.


Though the charges were never proven, the mud did stick and the teenager found himself consigned to the backwaters of Indian cricket for the next four years.

Following his triumphant comeback on the 1996 tour of England, he spent the next couple of years trying to dispel what he felt were unfair accusations leveled against him by Mahendra.

One explanation he gave during a TV interview was that Mahendra was at loggerheads with Jagmohan Dalmiya, then the secretary of both the CAB and the BCCI and so took it out on him, being from Kolkata.


There was another controversy back home following his comeback tour of England.

It was felt he was had not been fully fit when he played against South Africa on his home ground later that year.


Soon after being appointed as national captain in 2000, Ganguly played a season for Lancashire. It was an experience he would no doubt rather forget.

He flopped in the county championship though his form in limited-overs tournaments was outstanding.

However, he proved highly unpopular with his teammates who midway through the season began to shun him.

The 2-1 victory over the Australians at home in early 2001 has since been billed as “the greatest Test series ever.” It was also one of the most acrimonious.

Steve Waugh’s ‘mental disintegration’ plans blew up in his face and for the first time an Indian cricket team was seen fighting with fire.

It all went overboard at times but there is no doubt the Indian captain’s ploy of getting up the nose of his opponents and the captain in particular worked to perfection.

Ganguly became a figure of hate in the visiting Australian media, widely perceived as being manipulated by the team management.

Ganguly’s combative nature has often brought him into conflict with umpires and match referees, culminating in the Mike Denness affair in South Africa late in 2001.

The cricket world had gotten too used to the stereotype of the meek Indian cricketer. All that has changed under Ganguly, perhaps for the better.

Please check website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurav_Ganguly

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Answer 2

as his logo tells you 'prince of bengal' ,is very very very rich