5 Greatest ODI Knocks of Sourav Ganguly

#4 127 v South Africa, Johannesburg, 2001

Taming the Lions at their home

This was the first ODI on a tour to South Africa, where India had always struggled. Ganguly lost the toss, and India was put in to bat with Pollock, Nel, Ntini, Kallis, Klusner -- a South African pace attack at its zenith. There was no spinner in the attack.

But nothing seemed to matter to Sourav Ganguly. Pollock had four men in the circle on the off side, and Sourav Ganguly, playing on the up, kept finding gaps through them. Kallis went short, and Ganguly pulled. The result remained the same -- four runs.

The skipper had an answer to all the questions the home team asked -- running down the track to the pacers and lofting them over mid-off, pulling a short one from Makhaya Ntini for a six, and flicking a full one from the same bowler for another six. Sourav Ganguly was on song!