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Virender Sehwag Birthday Wishes To Sourav Ganguly, Calls Him As God Of Offside

Former Indian Captain Sourav Ganguly (Dada) turned 45 today. Ganguly, who had made a memorable Test debut with a century at Lord’s in 1996, went on to claim 11 wins from 28 away Tests, a record by any Indian captain. In the course of an illustrious career, he amassed 7213 runs in 113 Tests and 11,363 runs from 311 ODIs.

Ganguly also led India to the finals of ICC Champions Trophy in 2001 (Sri Lanka), ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 in South Africa, and won the famous NatWest series against England after which he celebrated by taking off his shirt at the Lord’s balcony.

While Ganguly Celebrating his birthday today all the former teammates took Twitter to wish the former Indian captain. Among everyone Viru who has been a familiar personality on Twitter with his hilarious tweets. Since the beginning, Sehwag has been spreading some unbeatable humor across the social media. His wit and humor is something that everyone loves.

Sehwag has once again taken the social networking site Twitter to wish Ganguly. He wished Dada with full of respect. Sehwag’s tweet is that “Whatever success I could achieve in Test Cricket, I truly attribute it to the wonderful support you gave me @SGanguly99 . #HappyBirthdayDada”.

He also tweeted stating Ganguly as the God of offside which is a nickname Dada earned during his playing days for his ability to dispatch anything on the off to the boundary. Viru added a picture of himself in the commentary box alongside Dada and stated that “Pro Tip-While with Dada, best to be on his leg side.On the offside, ball or human it’s a boundary. In this pic, Bat is on his left.”

Here are Few Tweets By Cricketers:

Mamata Banerjee Also Tweeted on Dada Birthday.

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Ganguly retired from international cricket in 2008 during the home series against Australia and currently leads Eden Garden in an administrative role – Cricket Association of Bengal president.