IPL 2021 – Kolkata Knight Riders share Sourav Ganguly’s motivational video on his birthday; Watch video: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) shared a throwback of the legendary Indian player Sourav Ganguly on his birthday. The video showed how Ganguly made a comeback in cricket after being dropped from the Indian side in 2005. Former skipper had played for KKR in three IPL seasons- 2008, 2009, and 2010.
Unseen footage from 2008 – Sourav Ganguly’s motivating speech in #KKR Team meeting 💫 #HappyBirthdayDada @SGanguly99 #KKR #FromTheArchives pic.twitter.com/IRi57mB5TU
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) July 8, 2021
Ganguly, who is now serving as the BCCI president, talked of how he made a comeback to Indian cricket after things looked totally deserted.
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In the clip, Ganguly said, “When I was left out in 2005, I was the captain and has problems with coach Greg Chappell. Nobody gave me a chance to come back. Everyone, even my dad at home used to tell me every once in a week, ‘just forget it,’ you have played enough, you have played 300 ODI’s and 80 odd Test matches. I don’t think you will play again. And still came back and played after six months and played the best cricket in the last 17 months. Now all I want to say in this is, why I’m trying to say this is you never know what’s in store. And I firmly believe that there is always light at the end of the tunnel.
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The left-handed batsman from Kolkata debuted for Team India in 1992. Ganguly was adjudged as the skipper for the Indian side after the match-fixing fiasco in 2000. His cricketing career spanned 16 years.
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 113 | 188 | 17 | 7212 | 239 | 42.18 | 14070 | 51.26 | 16 | 1 | 35 | 900 | 57 |
| ODI | 311 | 300 | 21 | 11363 | 183 | 40.73 | 15416 | 73.71 | 22 | 0 | 72 | 1122 | 190 |
| IPL | 59 | 56 | 3 | 1349 | 91 | 25.45 | 1263 | 106.81 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 137 | 42 |
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 113 | 99 | 3117 | 1681 | 32 | 3/28 | 3/37 | 3.24 | 52.53 | 97.41 | 0 | 0 |
| ODI | 311 | 171 | 4561 | 3849 | 100 | 5/16 | 5/16 | 5.06 | 38.49 | 45.61 | 2 | 0 |
| IPL | 59 | 20 | 276 | 363 | 10 | 2/21 | 2/21 | 7.89 | 36.3 | 27.6 | 0 | 0 |
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