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I don't miss Twenty20 cricket: Ganguly
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Sourav Ganguly's
explosive batting style - which he rediscovered
in the Nagpur ODI against Australia - would have
made him a successful batsman in Twenty20
cricket, but the former Indian captain says he
doesn't miss the newest and fastest version of
the game.
'I don't think I miss Twenty20 cricket. I don't
know what it would have been if this kind of
cricket was introduced during my younger days.
But now I don't think I would have really missed
it,' Ganguly told in an interview.
Ganguly along with
Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid - known as the
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Team India - made
themselves unavailable for the Twenty20 World Cup. Their
non-availability put wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni
on the hot seat of captaincy. Dhoni led a bunch of young
players to victory at the inaugural world championship
of the newest form of cricket in South Africa.
That win gave India some of its future stars, who rose
to the occasion when it mattered the most. They beat
Pakistan in a nerve biting finish at the final, and the
squad is now tipped to be the future of Indian cricket.
'I think this team has all the ingredients to be the
world champions. The new guys are really good and they
all are talented and will do the country proud in the
coming days,' said Ganguly, who won the best captain in
75 years of Indian Test cricket award.
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Ganguly beat
some of the biggest names of Indian cricket like
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Sunil Gavsakar and the
late C.K. Nayudu and late Vinoo Mankad for the
prestigious award.
'It is a great honour to be adjudged as the best
captain of 75 years of Indian Test cricket. My
best success as a captain, I think, will always
remain beating Pakistan in their home in 2004,'
said Ganguly.
India defeated Pakistan for the
first time on their soil to win a Test series in
March 2004. The series was also memorable
because Virender Sehwag became the first |
Indian to score a triple century with a solid knock of
309.
Ganguly had words of praise for Dhoni and said the
26-year-old should be given more time to click.
'I am sure he will take India to new cricketing heights.
The only thing he lacks is experience and he should be
given more time to gain it,' said Ganguly.
On his role in the Indian team as a senior player,
Ganguly said: 'The only thing I have to do is to keep on
performing. I have to keep on scoring runs.
'Performance and not age should be the criteria for
selection in the team,' he said.
--IANS, Mumbai
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