XtraTime Web Desk: Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly again hits back current Indianc cricket team coach Ravi Shastri. Earlier Shastri had said that the current Indian team has managed to win matches overseas, something which previous Indian teams failed to do. According to Ganguly these comments of Shastri are immature.
“These are immature comments. You should not pay much attention to what Ravi Shastri says. What he says and when he says things, no one knows. Whichever generation is playing for India, be it Chetan Sharma’s or when I played for India or when Dhoni played or now when Virat is playing, we are all the ‘Indian Team’,” Ganguly told India TV.
“We all just represent the team at different times. It is not necessary to compare one generation or the other. I can say a lot more but it would not be correct. Virat Kohli and his players are working hard to perform for India; it would not be nice for me to say anything,” he added.
This is not the first time that a former captain has raised the voice against Shastri on this matter. Earlier legendary Indian cricketer & former captain Sunil Gavaskar too hit out the current head coach.
“All I can say is that no Indian team has won in Sri Lanka for a long time. But we have won in the West Indies, in England, Test matches in Australia and South Africa,” Gavsakar told India Today.
“What I can say is that teams in 1980s have won in England and West Indies. Rahul Dravid also won series in West Indies in 2005, in England in 2007 and captained when India beat South Africa for the first time (in South Africa).”
“Dravid gets very little credit for his leadership and his team’s wins. There have been teams who have won overseas,” he added.