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NEW DELHI: Hurt by the snub at the Indian Premier League auction, former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly has retired from all forms of cricket.
Ganguly's decision came after no team picked him at the IPL 4 players' auction held last month.
Last week, IPL's Governing Council stalled what could have been a back-door entry for Ganguly after he was left unsold at the players' auction in Bangalore at a base price of $400,000.
Ganguly's chances of playing in IPL 4 hit a roadblock with three franchises -- Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai Indians and the Rajasthan Royals -- objecting to Team Kochi's belated move to sign up the southpaw, who went unsold at the players' auction.
In IPL, Ganguly represented Kolkata Knight Riders.
Ganguly, also known as the Prince of Kolkata, had got off to a brilliant start in his Test career by hitting centuries in his first two Tests in England in 1996.
Ganguly was appointed the Indian captain after the match-fixing scandal in 2000 and the high points of his captaincy were the series triumph against Australia in India in 2001, the drawn tour of Australia in 2003-2004 that came after he led India to the 2003 World Cup final.
In his last Test against Australia in November 2008, Ganguly scored 85 runs in the first innings but got out for a first ball duck in the second innings. India went on to win the series 2-0.
Ganguly has been the most successful Test captain of India, having led the team in a record 49 Test matches, out of which India won in 21 matches.
He announced his retirement from international cricket in October 2008 miffed at being dropped from the Rest of India squad for the Irani Trophy.
Ganguly's ODI record makes him one of the greatest one-day batsmen of all time.
Ganguly is the seventh Indian cricketer to have played 100 Test matches. The left-handed batsman is the fourth Indian to have played in more than 300 ODIs, and one of only seven batsmen to score more than 10,000 runs in ODIs.
In terms of overall runs scored in ODIs, Ganguly is the second amongst Indians after Sachin Tendulkar to have scored the highest ODI runs in the world, and the fourth in the world.
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