DADA ROCKS.............HE IS AWESOME..........

Ganguly is a left-handed batsman and a right-handed medium-pace bowler. He is a natural right-hander, but converted to the southpaw stance at a young age so that he could use his left-handed brother, Snehasish Ganguly's equipment. Nicknamed Bengal Tiger, Prince of Calcutta and also affectionately called Dada (older brother in Bengali) by his team-mates and Lord Snooty by his opponents, he is an aggressive player on and off the field. He made his one-day international debut in 1992, but his talents did not truly receive the recognition they deserved until India's 1996 tour of England when he scored centuries both in his debut Test as well as the next match (the second and third Tests of the series). Ganguly is only the third cricketer ever to score a century on debut at Lord's, after Harry Graham and John Hampshire (Andrew Strauss has also since accomplished the feat). Rahul Dravid once commented, "On the off-side, first there is God, then there is Saurav”. He scored 183 against Sri Lanka at Taunton in the 1999 Cricket World Cup, the highest by an Indian in World Cup cricket. He became captain within a year after the world cup and scored 2 centuries in the 2000 champions trophy immediately after. while he has acheived significant successes as catain, his individual performance deteriorated during his captaincy, especially after successes in the world cup and the tour of australia in 2003 and the Pakistan series in 2004. Following indifferent form in 2004 and poor form form in 2005, he was dropped from the team in October 2005. He has since remained active on the first class cricket scene in hopes of a recall, but his performance has been mixed - he has hit a couple of centuries in domestic cricket, but his English county stint in 2005 and subsequent appearances in the Challenger Trophy were failures. Consistent batting failures of the Indian cricket team led to his recall to the Indian Test squad in November 2006.

i am glad that ganguly played his part.his 50 in the 1st innings is very crucial for india winning the match.his 50 is the perfect answer to critics like gibbs who has a pair(duck out in both the innings) in the match.i fell that presence of certain players like ganguly,laxman in the team brings luck to the team even though they dont play well

i could just say iam very very happy for ganguly.

yeah me felt very happy to see him get a half century :) on a pitch where SA batsmen are struggling like this (7 wickets down sofar) getting a 50 is not a small thing :)