The intense eyes of the Bengal Tiger. Review on Saurav Ganguly

They say the human eyes says it all whether in the mood of joy or sorrow , greed or nervousness it says it all . Sourav Ganguly is was and probably for the next 10 years would be the most successfull captain of ther team . He debuted around 1991 and after sufferings defeats from Australia who would have thought that this man would lead India and would defeat Australia in Australia. His debut did not create much of impact in the team . Ganguly combines amazing grace and surgical precision in his strokeplay, especially on the off side, but his career had spluttered to a standstill before being resurrected by a scintillating hundred on debut at Lord's in 1996 . Then came a series of sixes and fours making an impact on the team . Ganguly then battled it through whether it was Pakistan's pacers or the West Indian Swingers , his forward comming on the front foot and hitting the balls for six was very exciting and was identical to Sachin's shot , speaking of Sachin when Sourav's career was at its atmost peak speculations started comming of him being jealous to Sachin , Sourav indeed was fast approaching to the Little Master's records but like always rumors come to an end so was this one . Sourav when was in the best form had a blast in the World Cup of 1999 , He along with Rahul Dravid destructed the Sri Lankan's bowling . Sourav got the man of the match award for his 183 so did he broke Kapil Dev's record for the Highest Individual score in India in the ODI's . Sourav's fame had just began came a series of man of the matches award , came a huge fan base following and Came the most famous personality of West Bengal hitting of Rani Mukherjee , Bipasha Basu and Kajol of the track like always Bollywood stars are nothing infront of the real heroes the Cricket Stars .

When he took over the captaincy after the match-fixing exposes in 2000, he quickly proved to be a tough, intuitive and uncompromising leader, traits best illustrated in the historic series against Australia in 2001, when he made light of personal travails to lead India to a famous victory . His dedication towards the position was in was very well applauded he was said the most successfull captain of India but no one knew what would come when it was 2003 World Cup .

2003 World Cup would be well rememberd by the cricket fans . Sourav Ganguly lead the Squad under coachmenship of John Wright of New Zealand . India started with a really poor performance against the Netherlands they however won the match but made the fans angry , Ganguly and Dravid's Imported cars were brilliantly damaged as the glasses were well broken , Kaif's new bought 5 bedroom house was washed with Black Paint with the angry mob in Allahbad , Sachin's wife got threat calls . This trick worked India straightend its Back and played probably one of its best innigs , Ganguly played a very vital role of being the captain he was probably the highest run scorer after the Player of the Tournament Sachin Tendulkar , but according to me Sourav was the real match winner . India somehow got into the Semi Finals and it was India's luck they were against Kenya but who would have thought that this team later would make the coach , the team players and the fans in India bite their nails but it was Sourav Ganguly's terrific century and Yuvraj's 50 that made India won the match and avoid a defeat with embarssment against a team like Kenya .

Then came the World Cup Final , the shops were closed , no traffic in the streets people were glued like Zombies infront of the T.V screen Rickshaw wallas were glued infront of the radio they had . Complete silence maximum people even watchd that chat show of Mandira Bedi that morining , it was 20 years ago that India

won the World Cup under the captaincy of Kapil Dev would the History repeat again despite the huge gathering and chants of the Pandits , Priest's of the Church and Maulaanas , would the History repeat again HELL NO , was it Nightmare HELL YES .

India won the toss odds against Australia , what would Sourav do ? He decided to ...... MADE THE BIGGEST MISTAKE IN HIS CRICKETING LIFE . Australia put a death defying score of above 350 thanks to the Amazing and Precious Bowling and Feilding of the Team costing them the WORLD CUP.

Then after the world cup , started Sourav's bad period he was well applauded for his efforts in the World Cup after it started his bad period less runs scored at the board , he was all messed up Rahul Dravid Emerged as better player and now present 2006 He is the Captain and Sourav's reputation is all dead BAD FORM FOR 3 YEARS is a very long period it took around 10 ODI Matches when he was stuck on 9950 to complete his 10000 runs in ODI , his batting average has been destructively affected , now such a period has come he was supplying juices to Dhoni , what sick view to watch .

He is a complete confused person now , he doesn't know when to play a defensive or an attacking shot , this is all because of pressure and load on him . WHENEVER HE GIVES HIS INTERVIEWS YOU CAN ''The intense eyes of the Bengal Tiger'' who is searching for his prey which has been already hunted