5 Greatest ODI Knocks of Sourav Ganguly

#2 183 v Sri Lanka, Taunton, 1999

The highest score by an Indian at a World Cup

This was another knock against the defending champions. India was going through a tumultuous World Cup campaign, with the team's fortunes swinging like a pendulum. They had beaten the likes of England and Pakistan, but had also lost to Zimbabwe. With the defending champions Sri Lanka next, Sourav Ganguly took matters in his own hands.

His opening partner, Sadagoppan Ramesh, was cleaned up in the very first over and out walked Rahul Dravid to join him. The pair then proceeded to bully the Sri Lankan bowling, much to the delight of a jam-packed Asian crowd at Taunton. Sitting among them, was an eight-year-old Jos Buttler.

The Sri Lankan bowlers sprayed around and the Indian duo capitalized, bring out an array of strokes, and knocking aside records -- a 100 partnership, individual fifties, a 200 partnership, individual centuries, and a 300 partnership.

The runs kept coming and the records kept falling. The Sri Lankans had no place to hide on the small ground in Somerset. The ball kept going into the crowds and beyond.

Dravid finally fell for an incredible 145, but Ganguly kept going. Vaas went for 84, and Upasantha for 80. Even Murali couldn't make an impact. 83 runs came off the last six overs. All this, mind you, was in 1999. When he finally fell, off the penultimate ball of the innings, he had 183 runs and the Indian record for the highest World Cup score to his name.