New Delhi: Former Indian captain had a victorious international career in both Tests and ODIs. He was also chosen as the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the inaugural IPL season in 2008. John Buchanan, who was KKR coach in 2008 admitted that Ganguly was suitable for the T20 format either as a player or as a captain.
“My thinking at the time was, as a captain, you needed to be able to make quick decisions and your game needed to be suited to the shorter format, and that’s why I had those conversations with Sourav,” Buchanan stated. “I just couldn’t believe he was suited to the format of the game and certainly not in a formal captaincy role.”
“I think it’s too much for one person to actually understand all the set of plays that you need to put in place, all the various decisions you need to make, reasonably quickly. And really where it was going to was to have everybody as a leader,” the former Australian coach further added.
“In other words, you are saying split captaincy, but you want everybody to be a leader on the field. These days all the bowlers are in charge of every delivery that they make. All batters make decisions out there without necessarily the inputs of the captain and the coaches. I think that is where the strength of the team lies,” he signed off.
The 13th edition of IPL will begin from September 19 to November 10 in the UAE. All the franchises have already reached to UAE and preparing themselves for the cash rich-league.
