5 careers which never took off under Sourav Ganguly's captaincy

#3 Dinesh Mongia

Dinesh Mongia was preferred to VVS Laxman by Ganguly during India's 2003 World Cup campaign

The fact that Dinesh Mongia was preferred to VVS Laxman by Ganguly for the 2003 World cup campaign is still something that irks a lot of Indian fans.

It is no secret that Mongia enjoyed plenty of backing from Ganguly since making his debut against Australia at Pune in 2001 under his captaincy.

Mongia managed to stay in contention with a string of decent scores but had a very poor conversion rate when it came to making the good starts count.

He did, however, score a mammoth undefeated knock of 159 against Zimbabwe which no doubt helped him extend his stay in the national team though it is still a surprise that he ended up playing 57 ODIs and a solitary T2OI at the international level.