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Ganguly, the inventor of modern day Indian aggression.

Ganguly was an established test player before he set his foot strong on one day cricket. But contrary to that, he scored fastest 10000 runs in one day cricket. He was the one who taught the younsgter to stand strong instead of taking things lying down. In old days, it would be painful to see our Indian players getting sledged by Austalian, England players and would show no reaction to it and take it as a dead duck. While batting also, when they were either beaten or get an awkward bouncers, the foreign bowlers use to stare at our batsmans, but our batsmans dont even look at them. All these things changed once DADA took over the captaincy. His aggression was very evident when he took off his t-shirt and uttered those famous(???) "f**k off" words after India winning the Natwest final against England in that dramatic victory scripted by Mohammad Kaif and Yuvraj Singh. It was so good to see and highly satisfying as I have seen the match between India and England in India previous to this tour, when Andrew Flintoff did the same thing when England won the last match of the series to level the series 3-3. Sourav changed the Indian image in the world cricket by letting the whole world know that Indians too, know to play aggressive and ruthless cricket. All these youngsters right from Harbhajan, Zaheer to latest Gambhir's aggression has the roots from Sourav Ganguly. I salute dada for it.

To me Ganguly means Aggression and there is nothing wrong in it, when we think cricket as a war. Because if your not aggressive in war, you will not win it.

Dada, Thanks for all the wounderful innings that you played and you are the architect of modern Indian cricket success.