This is undoubtedly his one of the best inning but not "the best". Ppl should see his 87 against SA in Kanpur, 2008. That is a textbook inning on how to play spin bowling on a turner. Thats God level batting. Dada, miss u always ❤
Had Sourav Ganguly the left handed batting legend of Indian cricket team played in 2011 World Cup then his retirement would have been far more honorable than a retirement post 2008 test series vs Australia on home soil.
@@knowledgeistruth3693 India would lose in 2011 world cup if Ganguly had played. Khud translate karo bhai. Par sach to hai.... Gambhir uss time meh jaada acha tha
The century from the captain leading from the front that starts a dream test series of India in 2003-04 .. after it Rahul Dravid in Adelaide, Sehwag in MCG and finally Sachin best 241without cover drive in Sydney.. India should have win this series.. but still it was India's best test performance in Australian soil so far that time
To the kids watching now, this innings was what turned Ganguly's Test team into a great test side and good away test side too. Ganguly brought Indian cricket out of its lowest point in 99-2000 due to Azhar Match fixing.
I still remember this very wonderful & so enjoyable Test match back in 2003 Winter season. So nostalgic old memories of my past life forever. Life was very entertaining & so awesome on those old colourful days. Always miss those very beautiful & so amazing days my life forever. Thank u so much.
Against all odds and speculations, India finished that series at 1-1, this marvelously brave inning of dada in the 1st test set at Brisbane had set the tone for what followed... Fortune are those who witnessed those crucial transitional series of Indian cricket.
@@kittycat-jc3qu Australia was much stronger then and had fabulous captains like Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting. Our current Indian team is fortunate to play against a good Australian side led by probably one of the worst Australian Captains I.e Tim Paine.
@@sudeshnamukhopadhyay5214 brother let me explain my comment what I said I said india dominated Aussies after 2000s in tests 2002 series india winner 2003-4 series draw 2004 series that series could go anywhere india was pain unlucky as aksash chopra was opening instead of sachin and they made green wickets apart from last test where aussie lost 2007 test series- Sydney test india was robbed score could be 2-1 2008-india win by 2-0 2010 india won by 4-0 in india 2011 india lost 4-0 in Australia 2012 -13 india won 4-0 2014 australia 2-0 2017 india 2018 india 2020 india 2023 india
@@sudeshnamukhopadhyay5214 and yeah no doubt about that ricky ponting team was nightmare I mean how can u manage to make a team with 11 legends 🤣 Langer Hyden Ponting Clarke Martin Symonds Gilly Warne Macgrath Lee Gillespie It's just the pure class of indian batting we somehow compited with these tough legends I mean look at us Sehwag Gambhir Dravid Sachin Laxman Ganguly Dhoni 😍 Only if we had bowlers like akhtar and asif we could defeat them in Australia too
Great knock, this was indias series, unfortunately we didn't win last match in Sydney, hearing commentary on Radio in the morning 4.30 am, golden days of Cricket.
😂 sure sure. The way I see it is - if even Ganguly can score runs, how pathetic must this bowling attack have been. Oh that’s right. No Warne and no McGrath. So no wonder
@@gangster125 Sourav Ganguly has a century against almost all countries (eg - Pakistan, Australia, South Africa, England, New Zealand) so all of them have bad bowling line-ups. Isn't it?
In those days facing aistralia itself very difficult, but dada is the man who shown the taste of win and who is real legendry captain always, one of the most succeful captains of all time. We cant forget you dada and of course sachin, sehwag, dravid, laxman, yuvi, zaheer, kumble you were given best always. Those are golden days of cricket always.
It's a hard place to play if you're not an Australian or South African. No English batter has got a ton there since Trott and Cook in 2010. The WACA was even more difficult...
Had Ganguly not been Indian captain and played as a middle order batsman only, he could have easily scored 10k runs in test cricket. Captaincy took a toll in his batting as it was a very challenging time for Indian cricket. A very gifted player.
Ganguly's captaincy overshadows his batting prowess. Also, that team had legends like Sachin & Dravid. Even after that Ganguly scored so many runs against mighty bowling attacks of Australia, Pakistan, South Africa etc
For a long time this tour of India remained my favourite untill the 2021 win. Used to bunk the school to watch the contest such was the craze. Good old times.
What a great great series it was... Ganguly saved from out of nowhere.. and the. Rahul lax combo, despite sehwag 195 we lost 3, n then the mighty score on board and Waugh saving the test ... Forgot Zak 5 wickets in first test 😍 what a great memories yaar
Watching this is 2024. Reliving the memories of 2003-04, this was the best test series back in those days proper test cricket at its best. This innings set the tone for 148, 233, 195 and 241 from the Fab 5
He always had a impact if not with the bat then with the captaincy if not with the both then just with his mere presence..... no wonder why he is called Prince...
@@sandeepparke2397 I agree with you, because this innings by Dada, against the world's best team in their most world-dominating ground, is right up there with Kapil Dev's 1983 WC heroics, that gave belief in Brand India Cricket for its sponsors and supporters across the world. Without such hardcore figures, who fought mightily for India in this amazing game, there would be no Kohli, Sachin, Kumble, VVS, Zaheer, Dravid, Yuvraj, Dhoni, Rohit, Ashwin, Jadeja, Gill, Mandana, Kaur and such, that have since powered Brand India Cricket across the world and earn it such pride.
It's always VVS at the Non striker end whenever it's a brilliant knock from the player be it Sachin or Dravid or Ganguly (Idk why but he's the most under-appreciated player)
What a great bunch of batters we had around that time !! Those were very initial days of India making proper strategy to play aggressive cricket in abroad too ! If those players were playing now they wd hv performed much better !
This particular knock got Ganguly out of the team and he came back as the best batsman of his team and finally forced to retire because India had younger players to fill the spot but the fact is we still don't have better no 5 than him and still we haven't found replacement of Ganguly,laxman and Kumble.
@@TrueVendetta Chappel helped Ganguly with some changes in his techniques while batting and Ganguly suggested his name for the coach after the series and as soon as Chapoel became coach he suggested Ganguly to drop himself from the team and eventually Ganguly was dropped.
Though coming from soccer, background & crazy state WB, Saurav mastered in cricket!!!👍🏻🎇👍🏻🎇mumbai players taking to crucketers is not big thing, becoz BCCI HQ in mumbai and there are many grounds, trainers in mumbai itself one can imagine whole maharastra!!!! more over he hit back to back century onhis debut!👍🏻🎇😳😳!!!too in england,,, here he is taming aussies in their home ground!!🎇👍🏻🎇👍🏻 what an incredible calibre!!!! I feel DADA is far more better than many cricket crazy state players...
This very Innings actually the Game changing innings of Indian cricket after historic Dravid & Laxman partnership at Eden. This very innings actually motivate & transform the whole team & India show the cricket world that they can win at abroad also after a long time.
Ganguly was one of the greatest stylish left hander India gifted to world cricket.His test match statistics were awesome from his debut to 2000 where he his average was over 50 and more hundreds (7) than his mate Dravid (6).After captaincy his test form deteriorated slightly but he never dropped his test average below 40 that makes him one of the 9 players in world test cricket who achieved it.After his comeback in test match in Johannesburg he scored more runs in test cricket for India till his retirement.
The best left hander India's ever had. Yes, there was a certain Yuvraj and a Gambhir but they weren't good enough across all the formats and with leadership mode on.
Playing cricket especially matches need courage and confidence and look at him..❤ the only left batsman with top class batting style and batting attitude (the good way)
I watched this match and on that time I had no any TV set at my home so I woke up at 4 30 am and went to neghbour's house to watch that series.Dada set the tone for the series and this tone was followed by Sewag,Rahul,Sachin .Bharatiya cricket men team showed how is to be won in abroad .
This century set the tone of the series...the best innings from Ganguly.
We want that Ganguly back - the BCCI President role was more like Chappell episode, unfortunately.
One of the best
@@gautamdeusayou are not a fan ict ... You are fan of VIRAT.... THAT'S WHY YOU THINKING LIKE THIS... VOGAS
Up there with his debut ton at Lords.
This century set the tone of India's resurgence in Tests especially away from home.
Ganguly had a class of batting, no one can ignore his class
Those were the golden days of our Indian cricket . we used to wake up early around 5 AM. To watch cricket matches playing in Australia New Zealand.
Yes😊
This is undoubtedly his one of the best inning but not "the best". Ppl should see his 87 against SA in Kanpur, 2008. That is a textbook inning on how to play spin bowling on a turner.
Thats God level batting.
Dada, miss u always ❤
Wow, someone finally did talk about that 87...Thanks - from a core dada fan!!
Yes,I also thought Ganguly's best innings was 87 at Kanpur absence of Tendulkar.Then 79 at Nottingham 2007 and 51* at Durban
Had Sourav Ganguly the left handed batting legend of Indian cricket team played in 2011 World Cup then his retirement would have been far more honorable than a retirement post 2008 test series vs Australia on home soil.
India har jata wc 2011 tab Ganguly agar khelta
Ganguly ki bnayi team ne jeeta tha world cup@@knowledgeistruth3693
@@knowledgeistruth3693 India would lose in 2011 world cup if Ganguly had played.
Khud translate karo bhai. Par sach to hai.... Gambhir uss time meh jaada acha tha
The century from the captain leading from the front that starts a dream test series of India in 2003-04 .. after it Rahul Dravid in Adelaide, Sehwag in MCG and finally Sachin best 241without cover drive in Sydney.. India should have win this series.. but still it was India's best test performance in Australian soil so far that time
And VVS, in both Adelaide and Sydney.
2003-04 it was. Steve Waugh's farewell.
Agerkar & Kumble performance also
To the kids watching now, this innings was what turned Ganguly's Test team into a great test side and good away test side too. Ganguly brought Indian cricket out of its lowest point in 99-2000 due to Azhar Match fixing.
I still remember this very wonderful & so enjoyable Test match back in 2003 Winter season. So nostalgic old memories of my past life forever. Life was very entertaining & so awesome on those old colourful days. Always miss those very beautiful & so amazing days my life forever. Thank u so much.
God of off side and prince of kolkata our dada🔥
Dada could search even a single inch of gap between any two fielders in off side even opposite team bring 9 fielders in the off side
Against all odds and speculations, India finished that series at 1-1, this marvelously brave inning of dada in the 1st test set at Brisbane had set the tone for what followed... Fortune are those who witnessed those crucial transitional series of Indian cricket.
Jeetne ka tha india ko ye series and 2007 wali bhi india literally dominated australia in tests after 2000
@@kittycat-jc3qu Australia was much stronger then and had fabulous captains like Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting.
Our current Indian team is fortunate to play against a good Australian side led by probably one of the worst Australian Captains I.e Tim Paine.
@@sudeshnamukhopadhyay5214 brother let me explain my comment what I said
I said india dominated Aussies after 2000s in tests
2002 series india winner
2003-4 series draw
2004 series that series could go anywhere india was pain unlucky as aksash chopra was opening instead of sachin and they made green wickets apart from last test where aussie lost
2007 test series- Sydney test india was robbed score could be 2-1
2008-india win by 2-0
2010 india won by 4-0 in india
2011 india lost 4-0 in Australia
2012 -13 india won 4-0
2014 australia 2-0
2017 india
2018 india
2020 india
2023 india
@@sudeshnamukhopadhyay5214 and yeah no doubt about that ricky ponting team was nightmare I mean how can u manage to make a team with 11 legends 🤣
Langer
Hyden
Ponting
Clarke
Martin
Symonds
Gilly
Warne
Macgrath
Lee
Gillespie
It's just the pure class of indian batting we somehow compited with these tough legends
I mean look at us
Sehwag
Gambhir
Dravid
Sachin
Laxman
Ganguly
Dhoni 😍
Only if we had bowlers like akhtar and asif we could defeat them in Australia too
Unmanageable problem was Steve Buckner
Young age is a blessing just look at ganguly so good looking here..these are days of my childhood
This century from Dada made me wake up at 5 am in the morning during winters to watch that test series.
What an Innings by India Captain. This very Innings sets the tempo of full series. Ganguly is undoubtedly the best ever Indian Captain of all time. ❤
True
Yes
Great knock, this was indias series, unfortunately we didn't win last match in Sydney, hearing commentary on Radio in the morning 4.30 am, golden days of Cricket.
Absolutely. That era alway golden.
Actually this innings changed the course of the series.
Australia's Legendary wicket taker Steve Bucknor was at his peak in this series.
😂😂😂🙏👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👍
I wonder why he isn't in the top 10 wicket takers of all times in tests?
@@bkj446 🤣🤣🤣🙏👌👌👌👏👏👏
😂😂 geniuses at work .
😂😂 so true.
Those were the times I would watch every bit of the match
😌✨❤️THE GRACEFUL LEFT HANDER EVER INDIA PRODUCE # SOURAV GANGULY🌟💯💫
I would rate this as his most Dada test innings ever.🙏
Offside king. That series was epic. Watched every matches in black and white tv. I was in class 3. Memories ❤😢
2 miost significant 100s in india’s test history - this knock from ganguly in GABBAand Rahane’s 100 at melbourne after 36 all out
A 🐐 level innings which never gets appreciated enough.
Danguly, Gangayli , dalda....always remember as the biggest choker of Indian cricket
@@rahmanreshad4909 diaper man
😂 sure sure. The way I see it is - if even Ganguly can score runs, how pathetic must this bowling attack have been. Oh that’s right. No Warne and no McGrath. So no wonder
@@gangster125 yes thats why india were 70 for 3...have some knowledge about cricket ok then comment...
@@gangster125 Sourav Ganguly has a century against almost all countries (eg - Pakistan, Australia, South Africa, England, New Zealand) so all of them have bad bowling line-ups. Isn't it?
It's perhaps Gangulys best innings in his career...and definitely a one that'll go down the memory lane..
That Cover Drive To Get His 50 Was A Classic ❤
In those days facing aistralia itself very difficult, but dada is the man who shown the taste of win and who is real legendry captain always, one of the most succeful captains of all time. We cant forget you dada and of course sachin, sehwag, dravid, laxman, yuvi, zaheer, kumble you were given best always. Those are golden days of cricket always.
Only Sourav Ganguly and Murali Vijay of india had test centuries at Brisbane Gabba...What a inns in such a tough and bouncy conditions
I think sachin also
@@sunnymane5646No
It's a hard place to play if you're not an Australian or South African. No English batter has got a ton there since Trott and Cook in 2010. The WACA was even more difficult...
I felt very bad for India as an Aussie because they totally deserved to win this series.
Australia deserved too, it was a fine series
Had Ganguly not been Indian captain and played as a middle order batsman only, he could have easily scored 10k runs in test cricket. Captaincy took a toll in his batting as it was a very challenging time for Indian cricket. A very gifted player.
That is why he achieved the world with his captaincy
This series was a kind of ice breaker for Indian cricket down under! India had a historical tour with all chances to win series!
This is Dada's best test innings ever, if you look at the situation, and how it turned the series, it must be.
One of the greatest innings played by any Indian skipper
Ganguly's captaincy overshadows his batting prowess. Also, that team had legends like Sachin & Dravid. Even after that Ganguly scored so many runs against mighty bowling attacks of Australia, Pakistan, South Africa etc
Dada All time favourite & Evergreen Cricketer in the world..🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
For a long time this tour of India remained my favourite untill the 2021 win. Used to bunk the school to watch the contest such was the craze. Good old times.
Once unique record set by Ganguly was his average never dropped below 40 since his detut in test😊
What a great great series it was... Ganguly saved from out of nowhere.. and the. Rahul lax combo, despite sehwag 195 we lost 3, n then the mighty score on board and Waugh saving the test ... Forgot Zak 5 wickets in first test 😍 what a great memories yaar
i saw this inning when i was in school.. what a pleasure to watch our childhood heros and what a joy..
Watching this is 2024. Reliving the memories of 2003-04, this was the best test series back in those days proper test cricket at its best. This innings set the tone for 148, 233, 195 and 241 from the Fab 5
One of the most iconic innings in Indian Test cricket history.
He always had a impact if not with the bat then with the captaincy if not with the both then just with his mere presence..... no wonder why he is called Prince...
Godly presence man
The most aggressive player in the 2000s era of cricket
Adam Gilchrist was the aggressive star of this period.
He was an aggressive captain in that era along with ponting
@@sandeepparke2397 I would say that he is the most aggressive captain that India has ever had.
@@smilingpukpuk agreed. But virat fans will be after you
@@sandeepparke2397 I agree with you, because this innings by Dada, against the world's best team in their most world-dominating ground, is right up there with Kapil Dev's 1983 WC heroics, that gave belief in Brand India Cricket for its sponsors and supporters across the world. Without such hardcore figures, who fought mightily for India in this amazing game, there would be no Kohli, Sachin, Kumble, VVS, Zaheer, Dravid, Yuvraj, Dhoni, Rohit, Ashwin, Jadeja, Gill, Mandana, Kaur and such, that have since powered Brand India Cricket across the world and earn it such pride.
PRINCE OF KOLKATA DADA 💯
Love this knock from Dada, it changed the whole series and then vice captain Dravid did the rest scoring more than 600 runs in the series.
When an australian claps for u: u played a real good innings ❤🔥🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
From my point of view this is the best Test innings of Dada.
I have seen this match during my 5 th std class,what a performance by ganguly
Those good old days when cricket was more enjoyable than ipl we used to watch each and every series and enjoying Dadas batting
People forget how good a batsman he was.
God of Off Side. Yet to See Left Hander as Strong as Dada on Off Side
One of the best overseas knock from Indian batters
It's always VVS at the Non striker end whenever it's a brilliant knock from the player be it Sachin or Dravid or Ganguly (Idk why but he's the most under-appreciated player)
Yours is the most under-appreciated comment
What a great bunch of batters we had around that time !! Those were very initial days of India making proper strategy to play aggressive cricket in abroad too ! If those players were playing now they wd hv performed much better !
One of the finest innings by a captain. Leading from the front.
World number one stylish left hand batsman DADA
One of the best test innings by Dada 👏👏
DADA is always DADA ❤❤❤
90's kids r beautiful memories,heaven 😂❤ wt a match
This is easily the best cricket channel in the world. Keep this fantastic content coming please
This particular knock got Ganguly out of the team and he came back as the best batsman of his team and finally forced to retire because India had younger players to fill the spot but the fact is we still don't have better no 5 than him and still we haven't found replacement of Ganguly,laxman and Kumble.
How did this knock got Ganguly out of the team ???
@@TrueVendetta Chappel helped Ganguly with some changes in his techniques while batting and Ganguly suggested his name for the coach after the series and as soon as Chapoel became coach he suggested Ganguly to drop himself from the team and eventually Ganguly was dropped.
@@varunrajput100 oh !!! In that way , you are right !!!
Dada set the tone for this entire series...
Brave inning
That smile from bucknr ! lol - we always played against 12 ... SB was a nightmare for our legends...
Gavaskar, Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Kohli
Ganguly, Laxman, Dhoni, Kapil Dev, Zaheer Khan and Anil Kumble- India all time test 11
Though coming from soccer, background & crazy state WB, Saurav mastered in cricket!!!👍🏻🎇👍🏻🎇mumbai players taking to crucketers is not big thing, becoz BCCI HQ in mumbai and there are many grounds, trainers in mumbai itself one can imagine whole maharastra!!!! more over he hit back to back century onhis debut!👍🏻🎇😳😳!!!too in england,,, here he is taming aussies in their home ground!!🎇👍🏻🎇👍🏻 what an incredible calibre!!!! I feel DADA is far more better than many cricket crazy state players...
Still the captain having third highest ICC wins ❤ legend dada...god of offside
Sourav Ganguly was more impressive in foreign tour than Indian matches
Yep, also aggression
One of the Best by Ganguly @ Brisbane ! 👌🏻👍👏
My grandpa was his fan, gave me his name
LOL
This very Innings actually the Game changing innings of Indian cricket after historic Dravid & Laxman partnership at Eden. This very innings actually motivate & transform the whole team & India show the cricket world that they can win at abroad also after a long time.
One of greatest left hander
He was outstanding in ODIs but in test cricket, he was just a good batter...
Ganguly was one of the greatest stylish left hander India gifted to world cricket.His test match statistics were awesome from his debut to 2000 where he his average was over 50 and more hundreds (7) than his mate Dravid (6).After captaincy his test form deteriorated slightly but he never dropped his test average below 40 that makes him one of the 9 players in world test cricket who achieved it.After his comeback in test match in Johannesburg he scored more runs in test cricket for India till his retirement.
It was a very good century, one of his best. He is one of the modern greats in cricket .
Wow! A ton in the first innings of the opening test in Oz. What a statement! 💪👌
5:14 game recognises game ✨
Gem, not game
One word Dada 🔥🔥
Gem of an innings. Lovely!
His innings changed the whole series
Unforgettable test series till date❤
The match that made Indian cricket realize that we can dominate Australia in Australia too, the rest is we all know..❤❤❤
DADA❤
Haters says Ganguly fear fast bowling...look at this innings..100 in australia against top class bowlers also im fast bouncy pitch ...awesome
The best left hander India's ever had. Yes, there was a certain Yuvraj and a Gambhir but they weren't good enough across all the formats and with leadership mode on.
The greatest batsman on the off side batting I have ever watched 🎉❤
Off side ka baadshah ! ✌
Dada was a huge crush for girls in his youg days. An absolute legend
The Prince of Bengal led Team India like a Lionheart.
Brilliant innigs defined the beginning of new India in foreign tours.
Best captain and best left handed batsman of all time for India .
One of the most important centuries by an Indian captain
My all time favorite Sourav Ganguly (DaDa)
This is his best,and super classy
This innings of Ganguly sets the tone for the series n gives lot of confidence to Indian team
India level the series against Australia in their home
Dada's best test innings,lead from the front.
One of the greatest person .
Today's Indian team is only because of him having this type of players.
best captain
So many high score nowadays …..but this class no one have
Legendry innings of Dada.
The Best captain of India ❤
I would say he isn't a captain, he is a leader ❤
Playing cricket especially matches need courage and confidence and look at him..❤ the only left batsman with top class batting style and batting attitude (the good way)
DADA.... GOD OF OFF SIDE.... REAL FIGHTER 💪🔥💖
It set up the confidence boost for india before adelaide
I watched this match and on that time I had no any TV set at my home so I woke up at 4 30 am and went to neghbour's house to watch that series.Dada set the tone for the series and this tone was followed by Sewag,Rahul,Sachin .Bharatiya cricket men team showed how is to be won in abroad .