Sourav Ganguly, former Captain of Indian team has led India to the World Cup 2003 finals, and is now holding the Indian captaincy record for the most Test victories.
In the 1999 Cricket World Cup, Sourav Ganguly scored 183 against Sri Lanka. This is the highest by an Indian in a World Cup Cricket tournament. He was appointed Captain of the Indian team immediately after the World Cup. In the immediate next series in the 2000 Champions Trophy he scored 2 centuries.
Also during his captaincy for the 2003 World Cup final against Australia, Ganguly after winning the toss decided to field. The decision of fielding first had raised questions in the minds of the people. But Sourav was confident and backed his call of fielding first. According to Sourav there would have been moisture on the pitch that would have helped his bowlers. But his bowlers bowled very badly and also the captain batted very poorly. India lost the match my a big margin of 125 runs.
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