Some Indian players have proved their greatness through bowling and batting. At the same time, there are some players in the team who play a vital role in helping the team win matches with the ball and bat. In cricket language, such players are called all-rounders.

So, former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, who is famous for his batting, had shown a similar performance in bowling. Let us tell you that on this day, Ganguly, famous as the ‘Prince of Kolkata’, had given the best performance of his career in ODI career.

The third match of the India vs Pakistan Sahara Cup ODI series was played on 18 September 1997 in Toronto, Canada. At that time, teams used to play the ODI format in white jerseys. In this match, the Indian team did not show any special performance in batting and the entire team was all out for just 182 runs.

So in this match, Pakistan was at one point controlling the match at a score of 87/2. But after this, medium pacer Sourav Ganguly took the command of bowling in his hands and performed brilliantly and bowled the best for India in his career.

Ganguly took five wickets

In this match, India was successful in winning the match due to Ganguly’s bowling. Ganguly took the wickets of Ijaz Ahmed, Salim Malik, Hasan Raza, Moin Khan and Aaqib Javed. Ganguly was awarded the ‘Player of the Match’ award for this brilliant performance in the match. Pakistan was all out at 148 and India won the match by 34 runs.

Watch this match winning spell of Sourav Ganguly

Ganguly’s Best#OnThisDay in 1997, @SGanguly99 took 5 for 16 against Pakistan in Toronto.

Chasing 183 against India, Pakistan were bowled out for just 148.

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On the other hand, after the match, captain Sachin Tendulkar called Sourav Ganguly his secret weapon. Talking about the series, India won the ODI series 4-1.