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Sourav Ganguly Test record against England

1996-06-20 – 2007-08-09 · Available official international scorecards

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The record at a glance

This study covers 12 Test matches against England with recorded batting or bowling figures: 19 batting innings and 12 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
Batting199831757.8253.04
Bowling12305838.1270.37

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: 3.25 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 563.

Batting milestones in this sample: 3 centuries and 5 scores from 50 to 99. Balls faced: 1,853.

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. 1996315 runs
  2. 200168 runs
  3. 2002351 runs
  4. 2007249 runs
Exact yearly figures · 4 seasons
Test archive totals by year
YearMatBat innsRunsHSAvgSR100s50s4s6sBFBowl innsWktsBowl avgEconBowl SR
2007362497949.8055.08023324524232.502.3284.00
20024635112858.5059.291346359230N/A5.33N/A
200134684722.6644.150010015420N/A3.18N/A
199623315136105.0048.09204526553620.833.3037.83

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
Home346822.6644.1520N/A
Away91591565.3553.8510831.75
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 England · Lord's

  2. First century in this archive · 131 runs

    Test v England · Lord's

  3. Best recorded bowling · 3/71

    Test v England · Trent Bridge

  4. Highest recorded innings · 136 runs

    Test v England · Trent Bridge

  5. Latest available scorecard

    Test v England · Kennington Oval

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
DateVenueInningsRunsBallsWicketsConceded
2007-08-09Kennington Oval35768--
2007-08-09Kennington Oval2--08
2007-08-09Kennington Oval13777--
2007-07-27Trent Bridge424--
2007-07-27Trent Bridge3--022
2007-07-27Trent Bridge279156--
2007-07-27Trent Bridge1--111
2007-07-19Lord's44065--
2007-07-19Lord's23482--
2007-07-19Lord's1--124
2002-09-05Kennington Oval25184--
2002-09-05Kennington Oval1--06
2002-08-22Headingley1128167--
2002-08-08Trent Bridge399159--
2002-08-08Trent Bridge2--042
2002-08-08Trent Bridge168149--
2002-07-25Lord's401--
2002-07-25Lord's2532--
2002-07-25Lord's1--016
2001-12-19M Chinnaswamy Stadium3--012

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.