Only 2 years more to go!

With Anil Kumble and Sourav Ganguly's retirement, and according to the IPL contract as heard of before, they will play IPL for two more years. After Ganguly's exit from IPL, Ricky Ponting will take over as the Kolkata Knight Riders Captain.

Anil Kumble

Only cricketer in Indian History to get 600+ wickets. 619 in fact. Kumble played his first match in 1990 when he began as a sloppy apparantice but after few years his wicket hauling continued. The time continued till 1996-97 when he took his 10 wicket haul in a single innings (10-74). This was his best innings. He took over as the Indian Captain in his 118th match. The record of being the captain after the most number of matches was that of Glen McGrath (115 tests) which was broken by him. No matter, many people put of questions on his inefficient captainship but his captainship was full of patience and power! Hope Dhoni continues Anil's succession in a royal way!

Sourav Ganguly

There was no doubt that this man's a struggler. In the modern days, as we all know..he struggled with his position in the team from a captain when Greg Chappell made his entry as a coach. He was out of the team for 10 months and then made his return with a bang but alas, his comeback only remained till test matches as newcomers had a whole lot of better performances. He says "The easiest way is to quit but the tough part is to carry on". He carried on till a glorious 102, 85 against Australia in the last series. (Till the date when the post is carried) and hopes to make a splendid retirement with a glory. Hats off to the best captain in Indian history.

Sourav Ganguly




Way back in 1992, when Pakistan had won the world cup, Indian team had gone to the dogs. The players performed very sloppily and defeats were coming in bunches. That time, a tiger made his debut in world cricket which we know as Sourav Ganguly. Sourav Ganguly holds the record of maximum number of sixes by an Indian (190) which is now the world's 3rd most after Shahid Afridi of Pakistan (256) and the extraordinary cricketer of Sri Lanka, Sanath Jayasuriya (275). Sourav Ganguly made the fastest 7000, 8000 and 9000 runs in ODI cricket which finally led the desicion to make him the captain in 2001, when the team was struggling with Sachin Tendulkar as its captain.

You all know about the top 5 contibutors from India towards world cricket! I always wanted to pay a tribute to them by a blog and I did it now finally!