Former India charismatic skipper, Sourav Ganguly believes that he can still make runs in the longest format of the game as well as in first-class cricket provided he train for three months. Ganguly hung up his boots in 2008. He recently said he is still good enough to score runs in Test Cricket. He said this while speaking to local Bengali newspaper Sangbad Pratidin.
“If I was given two more series in ODIs, I would’ve scored more runs. If I hadn’t retired in Nagpur, I would’ve scored runs in the next two Test series too. In fact even now give me six months to train, let me play three Ranji games, I’ll score runs for India in Test cricket. I don’t even need six months, give me three, I will score runs,” said Ganguly.
“You might not give me an opportunity to play but how will you break the belief inside me?” asked the former India captain.
He also talked about politics that he had to go through especially the altercation that he had with Greg Chappell. He was also dropped from the ODI team after being the best performer in 2007-08.
“It was kind of unbelievable. I was dropped from the ODI side despite being one of the highest scorers of that calendar year. No matter how good your performance is if the stage is taken away from you then what will you prove? And to whom? The same thing happened with me,” Ganguly added.
Ganguly played 113 Test matches, scoring 7212 runs, while he scored 11,363 runs in 311 ODI matches at an average of 41.02.
