Enjoy captaincy, Ganguly advices Kohli
BY Agencies26 Feb 2014 12:38 AM GMT
Agencies26 Feb 2014 12:38 AM GMT
‘I want Virat (Kohli) to win this tournament (Asia Cup),’ Ganguly told a news channel here today. ‘This would help Dhoni to come out of the comfort zone and help him to reinvent himself as a captain,’ he explained.
Rubbishing suggestions that it would be a test for Kohli as a captain, Ganguly said the Delhi batsman should enjoy captaincy and prove his strengths to the selectors. ‘It would be inappropriate to say that Kohli would be under pressure in the Asia Cup because even he knows that Dhoni would be the captain in the Twenty20 World Cup. So I would advice him to enjoy his captaincy and prove his strengths as a captain,’ Ganguly said.
Asked whether captaincy would have any adverse effect on Kohli’s batting, Ganguly recollected the right-hand batsman’s stellar role with the bat in the tri-series in West Indies last year. ‘It would not be right to predict on Kohli’s captaincy now. But I would like to remind everybody the way Kohli led the team and batted in the West Indies. ‘He had scored a 100 there and that helped India to get into the finals,’ the 42-year-old former captain said.
Ganguly, however, slammed former Aussie skipper Ian Chappell for describing Dhoni as a ‘meander along like an absent-minded professor strolling in the park’. ‘I don’t agree with his (Chappell’s) opinion. I think Chappell should rethink about this comments,’ he said.
Afridi is best person to lead Pakistan ODI side: Md Yousuf
LAHORE: After repeatedly criticising him for his shoddy performances, former Pakistan captain Muhammad Yousuf urged PCB to consider flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi in leadership role.
In the recent past, the barrage of criticism from Yousuf even prompted Afridi at one stage to dub him and Shoaib Akhtar as the ‘heckle and jeckle’ and ‘Mr Bean’ appearing on television channels.
‘Afridi is the best person to lead the one-day side in the next World Cup and I think the board should not waste anymore time in appointing him to this position,’ Yousuf said. ‘Afridi has the right attitude and needed aggression to lead.’
Rubbishing suggestions that it would be a test for Kohli as a captain, Ganguly said the Delhi batsman should enjoy captaincy and prove his strengths to the selectors. ‘It would be inappropriate to say that Kohli would be under pressure in the Asia Cup because even he knows that Dhoni would be the captain in the Twenty20 World Cup. So I would advice him to enjoy his captaincy and prove his strengths as a captain,’ Ganguly said.
Asked whether captaincy would have any adverse effect on Kohli’s batting, Ganguly recollected the right-hand batsman’s stellar role with the bat in the tri-series in West Indies last year. ‘It would not be right to predict on Kohli’s captaincy now. But I would like to remind everybody the way Kohli led the team and batted in the West Indies. ‘He had scored a 100 there and that helped India to get into the finals,’ the 42-year-old former captain said.
Ganguly, however, slammed former Aussie skipper Ian Chappell for describing Dhoni as a ‘meander along like an absent-minded professor strolling in the park’. ‘I don’t agree with his (Chappell’s) opinion. I think Chappell should rethink about this comments,’ he said.
Afridi is best person to lead Pakistan ODI side: Md Yousuf
LAHORE: After repeatedly criticising him for his shoddy performances, former Pakistan captain Muhammad Yousuf urged PCB to consider flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi in leadership role.
In the recent past, the barrage of criticism from Yousuf even prompted Afridi at one stage to dub him and Shoaib Akhtar as the ‘heckle and jeckle’ and ‘Mr Bean’ appearing on television channels.
‘Afridi is the best person to lead the one-day side in the next World Cup and I think the board should not waste anymore time in appointing him to this position,’ Yousuf said. ‘Afridi has the right attitude and needed aggression to lead.’
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