Interesting facts about Sourav Ganguly
* Sourav Ganguly family is among the five richest families in Kolkata.
* Sourav Ganguly was a typical Cancerian, Sourav was very mischievous as a child. He was petrified of dogs as a kid!
* When Sourav was young, his parents thought to make him an engineer or a doctor!
* Sourav is a natural right hander and does everything, except bat with his right hand. Sourav learned to play with his left hand from his elder brother, Snehasish, from whom he learned to play cricket.
* Sourav was first selected in the Bengal Ranji team, at the expense of his brother, Snehashish.
* His home in Behala, Kolkata has 48 rooms and his family owns 32 cars .
* There is an apartment complex in Kolkata, India which is named after Sourav. It is called the 'Sourav Housing Complex.
* Sourav's first love was not cricket. In fact, it was football and he admits, that even today, he'd rather watch football than cricket on TV. Sourav wanted to be a football player, but he took up cricket because his elder brother was a cricketer.
* He is very religious person and prays before every match.
* Following Tendulkar's footsteps, Sourav opened a three-storey restaurant, Sourav's - The Food Pavilion in Calcutta's posh Park Street inaugurated by Sachin Tendulkar in 2004.
* Sourav is very fond of Alu Posto and Chingri Macher Malaikari, both typically Bengali dishes. But his most favourite is - Biriyani
* It is Dada's dream to bring Reliance's Anil Ambani and Sahara's Subrato Roy to Kolkata.
* Sourav still lives in a joint family that has over 50 members.