Happy Birthday Dada: Here are Sourav Ganguly’s TOP 5 achievements as Indian skipper

Here we look at some of the most defining moments of Sourav Ganguly the Indian captain on his 49th birthday.

A day after MS Dhoni’s 40th birthday, another one of India’s greatest cricket captains – Sourav Ganguly – celebrates his 49th on Thursday (July 8). Former India skipper Ganguly is now the president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), fulfilling his role as a cricket administrator with aplomb for the last one year now. The Bengal southpaw is credited for turning the fortunes of Indian cricket team around after the 2000 match-fixing controversy. Ganguly turned India into a side of match-winners, playing a major role in the emergence of talent like Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan apart from senior hands like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman. Here we look at some of the most defining moments of Ganguly the skipper on his 49th birthday.