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title: "Unknown Facts about India's most dynamic skipper Sourav Ganguly"  
description: "Let's have a look at some lesser known facts about the man who taught India to win, our very own Sourav Ganguly, our 'Dada'."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-12-01  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1723/unknown-facts-about-india-s-most-dynamic-skipper-sourav-ganguly  
category: "sports"  
tags: ["Sports", "sourav ganguly", "ganguly", "Unknown facts", "dynamic skipper", "skipper sourav ganguly", "cricket Facts", "ganguly facts"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Unknown Facts about India's most dynamic skipper Sourav Ganguly

![Unknown Facts about India s most dynamic skipper Sourav Ganguly](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ebb2649c-7424-4009-ae59-0d9d1bb12d41/images/32359af6-50ba-4e79-b272-5c4f0dd2b7d4.jpeg) ![Unknown Facts about India s most dynamic skipper Sourav Ganguly](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ebb2649c-7424-4009-ae59-0d9d1bb12d41/images/8f31c80c-0ee5-4ac4-b919-2252bdc91dae.jpeg) Sourav’s parents gave him the nickname, ‘Maharaj’ which means ‘Prince’. Probably they knew the fact, their son was born to lead. ![Unknown Facts about India s most dynamic skipper Sourav Ganguly](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ebb2649c-7424-4009-ae59-0d9d1bb12d41/images/9a18ce3f-a63d-4d45-8706-0f7211b4e660.jpeg) Sourav replaced his elder brother Snehashish in the Bengal Ranji Trophy team. ![Unknown Facts about India s most dynamic skipper Sourav Ganguly](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ebb2649c-7424-4009-ae59-0d9d1bb12d41/images/cd1a9f19-df0e-42d0-b829-51c774d9cefa.jpeg) The Ganguly’s are one of the richest families in the ‘City of Joy’, Kolkata. ![Unknown Facts about India s most dynamic skipper Sourav Ganguly](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ebb2649c-7424-4009-ae59-0d9d1bb12d41/images/e94fa7c7-b999-4e4e-aede-e9dbfcc00688.jpeg) Sourav was a huge football fan in his childhood (still he is), and actually football was his first love! ![Unknown Facts about India s most dynamic skipper Sourav Ganguly](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ebb2649c-7424-4009-ae59-0d9d1bb12d41/images/bc599110-e416-4d90-a69b-074f83289a02.jpeg) Sourav made his debut against West Indies at Brisbane in 1992 but was consequently dropped from the side because of his rumoured ‘attitude’ problems. ![Unknown Facts about India s most dynamic skipper Sourav Ganguly](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ebb2649c-7424-4009-ae59-0d9d1bb12d41/images/bf9f6515-3d45-4d8b-a8d7-4c7aeeefae12.jpeg) Sourav Ganguly's ton at Lord's Cricket ground was the highest score(131) by a batsman on debut at the ground. ![Unknown Facts about India s most dynamic skipper Sourav Ganguly](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ebb2649c-7424-4009-ae59-0d9d1bb12d41/images/fb112a57-6b58-4687-92b6-848c728f1559.jpeg) Mohammad Azharuddin was Ganguly’s first international captain, but it is lesser known that Ganguly was Azharuddin’s last international captain ![Unknown Facts about India s most dynamic skipper Sourav Ganguly](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ebb2649c-7424-4009-ae59-0d9d1bb12d41/images/66e21fa5-9ada-4385-8503-2689af733040.jpeg) Sourav eloped with childhood sweetheart Dona Roy a week after the successful tour of England.

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