• On Wednesday, when he plays in the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne, Sourav Ganguly will become the seventh Indian and 45th player overall to have played 100 Test matches

• Ganguly, who made his Test debut against England at Lord’s in 1996, played his 25th Test match against Pakistan at Delhi in 1998-99. He completed his half-century of Tests by playing against England in Ahmedabad in 2001-02 while the match between India and Australia in Chennai in 2004-05 was his 75th

• The Prince of Kolkata scored 2645 runs at 41.32 and taken 11 wickets at 42.72 in 43 matches played at home while he made 3701 runs at 44.59 and claimed 21 wickets at 53.00 in 56 matches played outside India

• He made 1125 runs at 59.21 and took six wickets at 27.33 in 11 matches since making a comeback to Indian team against South Africa last year

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

• Scored two centuries in his first two Test matches, 131 at Lord’s and 136 at Nottingham against England in 1996

• Holds the record of scoring the first double hundred after playing most number of Test matches. He scored his first double hundred (239) in his 99th Test match against Pakistan at Bangalore

• His 239 against Pakistan at Bangalore in 2007-08 is the highest individual score by a left hander for India in Tests

• His 1023 runs at 63.93 with three hundred and four fifties in 17 innings of nine Tests this year is his best performance in a calendar year

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