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25 Decades of Age Sourav Ganguly’s Introduction Test ton

NEW DELHI: It was around this particular day, 25 decades back, when former India skipper Sourav Ganguly scored a century in his Test debut.
He also achieved the feat against England over the next afternoon of the second Test being performed in the Lord’s Cricket Ground.
England was bundled out to 344 runs from the first innings since Venkatesh Prasad scalped five wickets for its visitors.
Ganguly afterward came out to bat in the number three spot and then he moved on to play with a part of 131 runs from 301 balls with the support of 20 borders.
The left handed batsman was included in an 94-run stand alone with Rahul Dravid for the sixth wicket.
Ganguly was eventually sent back to the pavilion from Alan Mullaly and India were abandoned at 296/6.
It was likewise the Evaluation introduction of Rahul Dravid, but the right-wing batsman missed out to a century later being ignored for 95.
India was finally bundled out to 429, gaining an outcome of 85 runs across the hosts.
England was able to hang and the negative enrolled 278/9 from the next innings as the game finished in a draw.
Through time, Ganguly proceeded to become one of the most lucrative Indian skippers.
Under his direction, India defeated Pakistan in Pakistan for the first time in a Test series.
He also led India into the forefront of the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
Ganguly played with 113 Tests and 311 ODIs.
The swashbuckling left handed batsman scored 18,575 runs around all formats into his international career.
Back in October 2019,” Ganguly became the President of this Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

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