IPL 2019: Sourav Ganguly, the name of an inspiration to all the youngsters

XtraTime Web Desk: Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly is another name of an inspiration. Once he built team India with the youngsters like Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and many others and now he is helping young guns like Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer as the mentor of Delhi Capitals. Former India pacer RP Singh who came in limelight under Sourav Ganguly feels that Ganguly still inspires them to do well on their respective fields.”Dada still inspires us. He always encourages us to do better, Dada is a person who made many cricketers better with his own hand,” said RP.

In Australia Ganguly gave the first chance to young Irfan Pathan and with his sheer pace bowling Irfan impressed everyone at that time. Now Irfan does commentary during the IPL and here too Sourav was seen praising his commentary and backed him to do better in future as well.”He praised my commentary and also helped to do better,” said Irfan.

RP revealed that Sourav always tried to keep his young guns tension free during the game which helped them to do better as well.”When I used to play he gave me a lot of confidence. Even once he said you just bowl your best delivery. I will look after the rest. Dada means an inspiration,” added RP.

Irfan with adda with Dada at tea table

Sourav is a Bengali and we all know that how people of West Bengal likes tea. Sourav is no different. Irfan revealed that when Sourav was with the Indian team he always looked for the opportunity to speak with youngsters and have a cup off tea with them.”He just looked for the opportunity to speak with youngsters and have a cup of tea with them. I had lots of memories with dada on tea table and I still cherish those moments,” concluded Pathan.