Legendary cricketer and present BCCI president Sourav Ganguly is one of the most embellished sportstar in worldwide circuit. The left-handed batsman has amassed 18,575 worldwide runs and was additionally at the workforce’s forefront in a number of superb chapters.
Under Ganguly’s management, Team India completed as the runners-up of the ICC 2003 World Cup, shared the prestigious ICC Champions Trophy with Sri Lanka in 2002 and his epic celebration after India’s exploit at Lords throughout the 2002 Natwest Series are some of the fond recollections, which each and every cricket fanatic cherishes.
However, the Prince of Calcutta, a reputation that has been given to Ganguly by his devoted supporters, additionally endured some of the hardest second throughout his stint with Team India and the former skipper went on to narrate one of these moments for his followers throughout a digital media press.
Recollecting the ideas, Ganguly went on to speak about 2005, when Team India went via a transition beneath then new coach Greg Chappell. Terming it as the greatest setback of his carrer, Ganguly mentioned how he was stripped of the captaincy and the way he responded to the growth.
“You just have to deal with it. It’s the mindset that you get into. Life has no guarantees, be it in sport, business or whatever. You go through ups and downs. You just have to bite the bullet. Pressure is a huge thing in everybody’s life. All of us go through different pressures.”
“When you play your first Test, it’s the pressure of making yourself established and making the world know that you belong at this level.”
“And when you go to that level after playing many number of matches, it’s about keeping up the performances. A little bit of blip and it doesn’t stop people from scrutinising you and that adds to athletes in a long way,” Ganguly stated.
Speaking on the bio-bubbles, a safety measure taken for sportstars holding the prevailing pandemic in thoughts, the BCCI president added Indians are “more tolerant” to take care of psychological well being points as in contrast to gamers from England and Australia.
“I feel we Indians are a bit more tolerant than overseas (cricketers). I’ve played with a lot of Englishmen, Australians, West Indians, they just give up on mental health,” the former India captain stated.
