The pair of legendary Indian cricketers in Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar was one of the vital envious ones in ODI cricket again within the day. The most profitable ODI batting pair until date (8,227 runs throughout 176 innings) and having performed 238 ODIs and 103 Tests collectively for India, Ganguly and Sachin had even come head-to-head with one another as soon as.
The two had confronted one another when Ganguly was going by means of one of many hardest occasions in his profession, and was placing in all of the efforts to earn a comeback to the nationwide facet. Not solely was he eliminated as captain the earlier 12 months following an notorious controversy with then head coach Greg Chappell, however his poor kind had additionally price him a spot throughout each the codecs.
As a end result, whereas Tendulkar represented the India Blue (comprising senior Indian worldwide gamers), Ganguly was a part of the India Green throughout NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 2006/07.
Sourav Ganguly Bowling To Sachin Tendulkar
It was in the course of the second match of the above talked about Challenger Trophy in October 2006 at Chennai, when Ganguly was seen bowling to Tendulkar in the course of the twenty eighth over of the India Blue innings.
The ‘Master Blaster’ had already smashed a century by the point and was sharing the crease alongside former India captain Rahul Dravid. Having had his eyes set, Tendulkar determined to string with warning initially, with Ganguly having arrived to bowl his first over of the innings.
As a end result, the primary 4 balls which he confronted had been dots, adopted by a single off the ultimate supply. Bowling a good line all through the over, the right-arm medium pacer did a high quality job by freely giving mere two runs.
Who Won The Battle Between Ganguly and Tendulkar?
Ganguly returned again for his second over. Perhaps having anticipated the size which Ganguly was about to bowl at him, Tendulkar planted his entrance foot throughout and approach outdoors the off-stump the very first ball to information it in the direction of the hole on the square-leg boundary for 4.
Not keen to go for a dangerous shot but once more, Tendulkar collected only a single off the three different deliveries which he faces within the Ganguly over. All in all, Ganguly bowled three overs to Tendulkar, and fared decently nicely to provide away simply 8 runs off 12 deliveries.
While Tendulkar didn’t give away his wicket within the course of, Ganguly certainly emerged victorious on this mini battle being a part-time bowler and provided that the previous was batting previous his century rating.
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(@CrickeTendulkar) Has NKP Salve Challenger Trophy Been Cancelled?
The nineteenth version of the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy came about at Indore in September 2013, and turned out to be the final version of the event.
Reason being that the Deodhar Trophy was set to be launched as a three-team, 50-over competitors from the 2015/16 season onwards. The home one-day profitable group (winner of the Vijay Hazare Trophy) had been presupposed to compete for the trophy in opposition to two groups chosen by the nationwide selectors.
This very format was already in place in the course of the 18th and nineteenth seasons of the NKP Salve Challenger trophy. Thus, the BCCI determined to scrap this event altogether in July 2015.
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