Sourav Ganguly reveals the biggest moment of Indian Cricket

The Indian cricket underwent a complete make over under MS Dhoni. The captain who brought laurels to the country. The captain who did the impossible by winning 3 ICC trophies within a span of 6 years. The captain who took India to the top spot in the longest format of the game. One of the very best decisions that the Indian management took in the last 15 years or so was to give the captaincy to the young champ in MS Dhoni after the 2007 world cup debacle and the rest is history

“The great MS Dhoni…”

The BCCI president and the important member in the Indian cricket history in Sourav Ganguly in his latest online video lecture for unacademy expressed the emotions he underwent when India won the world cup after 28 years in 2011. He said,

For me the biggest day was when India won the World Cup in 2011. The great MS Dhoni… that shot, that six off the last ball will remain in Indian cricket history forever and what a moment it was

India made the finals of the 2003 world cup when no one gave a chance to the Sourav Ganguly led side. The prince of Bengal recalled that moment during the interaction.

I remember I was at the Wankhede Stadium that night and I came down from the commentary box to watch Dhoni and the team go around the ground. In 2003 the team which I was the captain lost the final to Australia so I was so happy to see Dhoni have the opportunity to win that trophy

The Dada’s legacy!

All the captains are not leaders. Only a leader knows what it takes to groom players for the future. Sourav Ganguly was a born leader. His thought process was something that India badly needed at the time when India were under huge match-fixing crisis in 2000. The number of stars that Ganguly inculcated into the Indian team before his departure is one thing that no other captain has done to date.

The southpaw was happy to see a good bunch of players winning the world cup who were all groomed by him.

“That team had seven or eight players who started their careers under me. The likes of (Virender) Sehwag, Dhoni himself, Yuvraj (Singh), Zaheer (Khan), Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra. So I think that’s a legacy which I was extremely happy to leave behind as a captain. And that was my biggest legacy that I left a side which had the ability of winning at home and away from home,” Sourav Ganguly concluded