More than the century itself, it was the backdrop to Sourav Ganguly’s knock at the Gabba in Brisbane, that is still just as fascinating tod...
More than the century itself, it was the backdrop to Sourav Ganguly’s knock at the Gabba in Brisbane, that is still just as fascinating today as it was then.
From a few months in the lead up, Ganguly had been talking about how challenging the series would be.
There were even reports in the newspapers that the India skipper, during the off-season, had worked really hard on his fitness. But most were dismissed as just that: reports. After all, it’s one thing to say and quite another to do that. The off-season, for the Indian teams of that era, was a time when most players chose to really put up their feet.
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All of that changed when news broke that Ganguly, under the pretext of shooting an advertising feature in Australia, was training under Greg Chappell in a bid to sort out his problems against short, rising deliveries.
Incidentally, it was this stint with Chappell that played a huge role in Ganguly recommending him for the position of India coach but more on that on another day.
Ganguly, as a player, had never been short of confidence but for him to acknowledge the problem and do something about it showed...
