XtraTime Web Desk: Former India opener Virender Sehwag feels new BCCI President Sourav Ganguly is the best man to improve domestic cricket. Sehwag was among the many cricketers who shined under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly. The Nawab of Nazafgarh, who is known to be a big supporter of Ganguly specified why he reckon the New BCCI President is the best person to improve the structure of domestic cricket.
“Ganguly knows the problems at the grassroots. When he was dropped from the Indian team, he spent a lot of time travelling around the country. I still remember that when he returned to the Indian team, he used to talk about what was lacking in the domestic circuit,” Sehwag wrote in his column for The Indian Express.
Sehwag also added that a lot of cricketers benefitted from Ganguly’s captaincy and he feels that Indian cricket might get a huge push forward with him at the helm at BCCI.
“He gave a player the kind of confidence that makes him forget that he has actually flopped in the last eight to 10 innings,” said Sehwag. “By some strange miracle, the player would think that he was actually performing well. And with that confidence, he would give his 100 percent all the time and win matches. That I think was Dada’s biggest strength as a leader.”
“Dada was a very sharp and instinctive captain. He liked to involve everyone in decision-making. A lot of times, he used to listen to everyone but do what he thought was right. He would ask the senior players – me, Harbhajan [Singh], Zaheer [Khan] – about the opposition and also the conditions. Once we had given our inputs, he would have six to seven views. After that, he would either follow one view or come up with his own view that was different from everyone, which he thought was good for him. This, I think, is a great leadership approach,” he added.