Timeline - Sourav Ganguly

Sourav Ganguly has announced his reitrement from all forms of the sport. He will effectively end his international career after the Test series against Australia at home.

Having made his Test debut at 23 against England, Sourav Ganguly has had various ups and downs on the road to his latest recall in the Test squad for the homes series against Australia. Here is a timeline of how he fared in his career as a cricketer:

1992
January - Benson and Hedges World Series, Australia

Dropped from the Indian team after a solitary match

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1996
June - Selected to the Indian team's tour of England in 1996

Scored 131 in debut Test at Lord's, and followed debut hundred with 136 at Trent Bridge.

October - Partnered Sachin Tendulkar at the top of the innings in an ODI in 1996 - Vs. South Africa, Jaipur - the pair added 126 runs in their first match together at the top, and went on to become the most successful opening pair in the history of one-day internationals.

1997

February - Standard Bank tri-series, 1996/97 - Won his first man-of-the-match award for his 83.

September - Sahara Cup, Toronto, 1997 - won four Man-of-the-Match awards in five matches

1999

September - Appointed captain of the Indian team in the absence of Sachin Tendulkar

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2000

October - Led India to the finals of the ICC Champions Trophy in Nairobi

November - Appointed regular captain of the Indian team after Sachin Tendulkar stepped down from captaincy. He captained India in first Test against Bangladesh at Dhaka

2001

March - Captained India in the now-famous Test series against Australia, which India won 2-1

2002

April - Led India to a Test win in the West Indies - India's first win there since 1976.

July - Led India to a win in the NatWest series in England

September - Led India to a first Test win in England in 16 years; India drew the Test series.

September - Led India to the final of the ICC Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka, shared the trophy with the hosts.

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2003

March - Led India to the final of the ICC World Cup 2003.

December - Became only the third Indian captain after Sachin Tendulkar and Mohammad Azharuddin to score a century against Australia in Australia.

2004

January - Captained India in a drawn series in Australia

March - Captained India to a ODI series win in Pakistan.

April - Captained India, alongwith Rahul Dravid, to the first ever Test series win in Pakistan

2005

Involved in an altercation with coach Greg Chappell

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2006

Stripped off captaincy, dropped from the Indian team

December - Recalled to the Indian team for the tour of South Africa - comes back in grand fashion and goes on to become India's leading run scorer in Tests, and one of India's top three run getters in one-day internationals in 2007

2007

December - Scores a double hundred in a Test match at Bangalore - his career best score in first-class cricket

2008

January - Ignored from the Australia-bound one-day team.

April - Makes a crucial 87 against South Africa on a minefield at Kanpur to help India level the series

August - Fares poorly in the Test series in Sri Lanka

September - Ignored for the Irani Cup

October - Retains his place in the Indian team for the first two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy

October 7, 2008:  Sourav Ganguly announces his retirement from the sport.