We have seen many great leaders over these years. And this is an article about a true administrator an aggressive leader. Finest captains of international cricket. His name is SOURAV GANGULY. He got captaincy in a dramatic note after whitewash down under Sachin gave up his captaincy and then the machfixing saga at that particular time Dada was made as captain. And then no looking back he made players into team the word TEAMINDIA came into prominence in his reign. He changed the batting order and scarified  his opening spot to VIRU. Searched for players all over the country and gave chances to players like YUVI, Baghi, Viru, ZAK to prove themselves. Including 7th specialist batsmen in the team for that using dravid as wicket keeper batsman was his idea. His knocks in 2003 worldcup semies against kenya and a knock of 141 down under was really great.  He  proved to be a tough, intuitive and uncompromising leader. Under his stewardship India started winning Test matches away, and put together a splendid streak that took them all the way to the World Cup final in 2003. Later that year, in Australia, an unexpected and incandescent hundred at Brisbane set the tone for the series where India fought the world's best team to a standstill. Victory in Pakistan turned him into a cult figure but instead of being a springboard for greater things, He is the only Indian skipper to have a oneday series win and a test series win in pakistan till date. As a batsmen he was really good. World's best technical batsmen dravid praised Dada as god of off-side. He induced fighting spirit into the team and players. His slogan was JEETNE KELIYE KHELO. Never give-up was his attitude. The period of Gregg

was like a nightmare for dada. He lost his captaincy and place in the side but in 2006 he came into team with his fighting spirit. And his atats suggest that he is one of the destructive openers of ODI cricket. His stats are as follows

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	113	188	17	7212	239	42.17	14070	51.25	16	35	900	57	71	0
ODIs	311	300	23	11363	183	41.02	15416	73.70	22	72	1122	190	100	0
First-class	254	399	44	15687	239	44.18			33	89			168	0
List A	431	415	43	15531	183	41.75			31	97			130	0
Twenty20	62	58	4	1458	91	27.00	1342	108.64	0	8	154	47	22	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	113	99	3117	1681	32	3/28	3/37	52.53	3.23	97.4	0	0	0
ODIs	311	171	4561	3849	100	5/16	5/16	38.49	5.06	45.6	1	2	0
First-class	254		11108	6099	167	6/46		36.52	3.29	66.5		4	0
List A	431		8027	6527	168	5/16	5/16	38.85	4.87	47.7	4	2	0
Twenty20	62	33	513	661	27	3/27	3/27	24.48	7.73	19.0	0	0	0

He is more than a useful bowler with his medium-pace bowling he took 100 ODI wickets. He introduced the taste of winning overseas later team was habituated to do so.