Saurav Ganguly - Strongest Willed Cricketer

Saurav Ganguly is one of the most explosive cricketing personality ever.When no body had so expected, he made a dream debut in test cricket in the year 1995 at Lords England. He scored a century in his first test and thus becoming only the third person to score a century on debut at Lords.From here he went on to establish himself as a reliable batsman in the Indian team in both one-days and test crickets. Then, when the responsibility of captaincy was entrusted upon him in the year 2000, he from the very first series as captain, started showing that he has amazing leadership qualities. And later he rose to become the most successful ever captain of the Indian Cricket Team. He remained captain of the Indian team until year 2005. During his captaincy India played 49 test matches out of which 21 resulted in wins.He also led India in 2003 world cup in which India reached upto the final.
Things changed drastically when Greg Chappel took over as coach of Indian Cricket Team. It appeared that the Ganguly era will end very soon. Chappel-God knows why?!- became an open enemy of Ganguly.Yes at that time Ganguly was not going through a good form as batsman but under the influence of Chappel-induced-memory-loss people temporarily forgot that Ganguly is one of the most successful Indian batsman along with Sachin Tendulkar. That Ganguly has scored 15 centuries in test matches and 22 in one days.Or that he is one among the seven batsmen who have scored more than 10000 runs in one days.
People forgot that in not so distant past we all were fans of his charismatic personality. We all adored him for the way he displayed aggression as captain, the way he swung his undershirt on India winning a match at Lords or the way he inspired his team to pull wins from the jaws of defeat. We forgot every thing because we Indians thought that Greg Chappel is some super coach who on the basis of his magical coaching techniques will make India the strongest team in the world. People like Kiron More who was Chief Selector of the Indian Cricket team at that time became so much obssessed with Chappel that Ganguly was unceremoniously dropped from the Indian National Cricket team in early 2006. People thought Ganguly is finished. But no, his few mad fans(including me!) were right, Ganguly had lots of passion still left in him. He started working hard and on the basis of his good performance in domestic cricket Ganguly made a dream come back to the world of international cricket in the end of 2006 during the South Africa tour of the Indian team. After coming back into Indian team he has performed consistently well and has shown to the world his inner strength as a person. How many of us could have overcome from a similar situation of despair in personal and professional life?
Then skeptics said he is not fit for One Dayers. So ignoring his consistingly good performance in the past one year he was not selected into Indian One Day team. He was ignored for 20-20 world cup as well although every body was aware that he is capable to score runs at rapid pace needed in one-dayers and 20-20's.
But his performance in the ongoing IPL-20-20 matches has again silenced all the critics.