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Sourav Ganguly Test record against Australia

1996-10-10 – 2008-11-06 · Available official international scorecards

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The record at a glance

This study covers 24 Test matches against Australia with recorded batting or bowling figures: 44 batting innings and 16 bowling innings. Matches with no batting or bowling entry for this player are outside this sample.

Batting runs and dismissals; bowling runs conceded and wickets
DisciplineInningsRunsWickets / outsAverageStrike rate
Batting441,4034035.0752.58
Bowling16246641.0075.00

Batting average = runs ÷ dismissals; batting strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Bowling average = runs conceded ÷ wickets; bowling strike rate = legal balls per wicket. Rates require fully recorded inputs. A hyphen means unrecorded; N/A means a zero denominator.

Bowling economy: 3.28 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 450.

Batting milestones in this sample: 2 centuries and 7 scores from 50 to 99. Balls faced: 2,668.

CAREER BY FORMAT

How the record developed

Available scorecards

Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.

Test

Test · Runs by year
  1. 199687 runs
  2. 1998131 runs
  3. 1999151 runs
  4. 200026 runs
  5. 2001106 runs
  6. 2003268 runs
  7. 200475 runs
  8. 200783 runs
  9. 2008476 runs
Exact yearly figures · 9 seasons
Test archive totals by year
YearMatBat innsRunsHSAvgSR100s50s4s6sBFBowl innsWktsBowl avgEconBowl SR
200871447610239.6654.331347387620N/A2.11N/A
200712834341.5052.86006115710N/A5.00N/A
200434754518.7557.690010013020N/A0.50N/A
20033526814453.6064.891137041310N/A8.00N/A
2001361064817.6642.74001802484165.003.75104.00
200012262513.0046.420030561146.003.8372.00
1999241516037.7546.17011503272144.004.8854.00
1998351316532.7547.12011312783315.662.3839.33
199612876687.0047.540113118300N/AN/AN/A

Home, away and neutral conditions

Setting follows the recorded host country. Unknown locations are retained as unknown; venue names alone are not guessed.

Opposition record by match setting
SettingMatchesBat innsRunsBat avgBat SRBowl innsWicketsBowl avg
Home132470735.3547.518428.50
Away112069634.8058.988266.00
SCORECARD MILESTONES

Career timeline

Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.

  1. First available scorecard

    Test v Australia · Arun Jaitley Stadium

  2. Best recorded bowling · 3/28

    Test v Australia · Eden Gardens

  3. Highest recorded innings · 144 runs

    Test v Australia · Brisbane Cricket Ground

  4. Latest available scorecard

    Test v Australia · Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
DateVenueInningsRunsBallsWicketsConceded
2008-11-06Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium301--
2008-11-06Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium185153--
2008-10-29Arun Jaitley Stadium33253--
2008-10-29Arun Jaitley Stadium158--
2008-10-17Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium32737--
2008-10-17Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium1102225--
2008-10-09M Chinnaswamy Stadium42668--
2008-10-09M Chinnaswamy Stadium247115--
2008-01-24Adelaide Oval31838--
2008-01-24Adelaide Oval2--06
2008-01-24Adelaide Oval1729--
2008-01-16WACA Ground303--
2008-01-16WACA Ground1912--
2008-01-02Sydney Cricket Ground45156--
2008-01-02Sydney Cricket Ground26778--
2008-01-02Sydney Cricket Ground1--013
2007-12-26Melbourne Cricket Ground44078--
2007-12-26Melbourne Cricket Ground24379--
2007-12-26Melbourne Cricket Ground1--015
2004-10-14MA Chidambaram Stadium3--02

This opposition study uses available scorecards in Cricket Wicket’s twelve-team publication scope. It is a dated archive analysis, not a claim of complete career coverage. Read the coverage and calculation method.