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Ganguly best, but no place in Rest

September 09, 2008 15:14 IST
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Sourav Ganguly's omission from the Rest of India squad for the Irani Trophy match against Ranji Trophy champions Delhi could well signal the end of the left-hander's international career.

A poor outing with the bat in the three-Test series in Sri Lanka saw the selectors lose patience with the left-hander. However, question marks still remain over their decision to persist with Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar, who also did not live up to expectations.

Ganguly's axing could well signal the start of the process of the selectors trying to ease out the Fab Four from the Indian Test team.

Interestingly, Ganguly's run-aggregate since his comeback in December 2006, is the highest by any Indian batsman in Test matches during this period, whereas his run-aggregate in ODIs since his comeback is the fifth highest by any Indian batsman after Mahendra Singh Dhoni (1,884 runs in 58 matches @ 49.57), Tendulkar (1824 in 43 @ 46.76), Yuvraj Singh (1,763 in 55 @ 38.32) and Gautam Gambhir (1,578 in 44 @ 41.52).

Rajneesh Gupta presents a statistical analysis of the four senior batsmen:

Fab Four's Test record:

Mts Inns NO Runs HS Avg SR 100 50
S Tendulkar 150 244 25 11877 248* 54.23 54.13 39 49
R Dravid 125 216 26 10246 270 53.92 41.93 25 52
S Ganguly 109 180 15 6888 239 41.74 51.36 15 34
VVS Laxman 96 158 21 6000 281 43.79 49.15 12 35

Fab Four's ODI record:

Mts Inns NO Runs HS Avg SR 100 50
S Tendulkar 417 407 38 16361 186* 44.33 85.49 42 89
S Ganguly 311 300 23 11363 183 41.02 73.70 22 72
R Dravid 333 308 40 10585 153 39.49 71.22 12 81
VVS Laxman 86 83 7 2338 131 30.76 71.23 6 10

Fab Four's Test record since Ganguly's comeback in Dec 2006:

Mts Inns NO Runs HS Avg SR 100 50
S Ganguly 21 40 3 1667 239 45.05 61.51 3 9
S Tendulkar 18 33 3 1408 154* 46.93 55.67 4 8
VVS Laxman 19 34 7 1302 112* 48.22 49.48 2 10
R Dravid 21 40 4 1197 129 33.25 39.75 2 6

Fab Four's ODI record since Ganguly's comeback in Dec 2006:

Mts Inns NO Runs HS Avg SR 100 50
S Tendulkar 43 42 3 1824 117* 46.76 85.51 2 15
S Ganguly 30 28 2 1120 98 43.07 71.93 0 11
R Dravid 31 27 5 823 92* 37.40 82.05 0 8
VVS Laxman - - - - - - - - -

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