Ranking India’s Top 10 ODI match-winners of all-time
Team India have been fortunate enough to have a good supply of such players for its ODI team.
8. Sourav Ganguly
The architect of the modern-day structure and the style of play in the One Day International format of the Indian team, a leader of the highest order and an equally potent batter who could come in handy with the ball too, Sourav Ganguly finds his place at the 8th spot in this list. He is the man who cannot be kept away from a cricket field for long and always finds a way to come back and stay connected to the game, every time the fans feel that they have seen the last of him.
Prior to the time that he was given the leadership role with the Indian team, the squad was known to be of the kind which preferred a safe and steady approach to the game. But, soon as Dada came to lead the Indian team, everything changed. The once tame and peace-loving persona of the Indian team was changed and it was modelled to show the world that whenever needed, the lot of players playing in the blues could take down any force in the cricketing world with aggression, a quality which Sourav himself had mastered very well.
He played for the Indian team in 311 One Day Internationals and made sure that he contributed with both the bat and the ball in hand as much as he could before he hung his boots in 2007. By the end of his career, Sourav had taken 100 wickets and scored 11,363 runs showing what a true all-rounder he was. He was a player who could do it all, stay sharp on the field, captain the side with utmost precision, bowl the batsmen over as a bowler and hit balls over the fence with the bat in hand.
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