Dada V wil miss U....

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly was born on 8 July 1972 is an Indian cricketer, and former captain of the Indian national team. He is India's most successful Test captain till date, winning 21 tests out of 49 tests he Captained and leading India into the 2003 World Cup finals.An aggressive captain, Ganguly is credited with having nurtured the careers of many young players who played under him.The left-handed Ganguly is a prolific One Day International batsman, with over 11,000 ODI runs to his credit.Despite ODI success, his test place was often lost to younger players towards the later stages of his career.

Sourav Ganguly is a left-handed batsman whose runs come primarily from the off-side. Throughout his career, he has played off-side shots such as the square cut, square drive and cover drive with elegance and complete command. Early in his career he was not comfortable with the hook and pull, often giving his wicket away with mistiming such shots. He was also criticized for having
difficulty in handling short pitched balls and bouncers, notoriously exploited by the Australians and South Africans. However, after his comeback in 2007, he has worked upon these weaknesses to a large extent. He can hit powerful shots to the off-side on front and back foot with equal ease.

In One Day Internationals, where he usually opens the innings, he tries to take the advantage of fielding restrictions by advancing down the pitch and hitting pace bowlers over extra cover and mid-off. He is also notorious for attacking left arm spin bowlers. Due to excellent hand-eye coordination, he picks the length of the ball early, comes down the pitch and hits the ball aerially over mid-on or midwicket, often for a six.Ganguly is also a right arm medium pace bowler. He can swing and seam the ball both ways and often chips in with useful wickets to break partnerships.He has taken 100 wickets in the ODI's. Despite not being very athletic as a fielder, Ganguly has taken 100 catches in one-day Internationals.

Despite all these records he was not considered for the Irani Trophy 2008 stating he was out of form which made hime to take a decision which was a huge setback to all his fans.DADA(sourav is known as like this among his fans) announced his retirement from the international cricket field.On October 7 2008, Ganguly announced that the test series against Australia starting that month would be his last.He was totally unhappy about his selection to the team in the past few months.

Anyhow the Indian Cricket surely gonna miss a very good cricketer like him and we the fans of both cricket and Dada will miss him badly..There wont be any replacement and there cant be any replacement for dada...Dada is the great...Hats off to u DADA....