"You Made Freddie Flintoff Bowl Bouncers At Me"- Sourav Ganguly And Nasser Hussain Look Back At 2002 NatWest Series

“You Made Freddie Flintoff Bowl Bouncers At Me”- Sourav Ganguly And Nasser Hussain Look Back At 2002 NatWest Series

Last Update on: June 19th, 2023 at 06:41 pm

Sourav Ganguly had a lot of success in England and the best moment of his captaincy was leading India to win the Natwest final in 2002. England is very close to the former Indian skipper as a country and for playing cricket as well.

Ganguly has scored 915 runs from nine Tests including three centuries at an average of 65.35. He has better figures as a batter in England than the likes of Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane. Of the current lot of active Indian players, only Virat Kohli has a slightly better record in England (976 runs from 15 Tests).

Sourav Ganguly toured England in three different phases of his career – first in 1996 making his debut with an iconic century at Lord’s – then in 2002 as captain of the team and lastly in 2007 – where he was part of India’s famous Test series win in England after 21 years.

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Ganguly along with Nasser Hussain who was commentating during the WTC Final at the Oval went back in time during their playing days. The former Indian skipper remembered how Nasser Hussain’s tactics to dismiss him with the short ball failed miserably.

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Ganguly: “I had a good amount of success in this country because Nass kept bowling short at me all the time.”

Hussain: “You got me out.” (laughs)

Ganguly: “Because I pitched it up (Sarcastically). I remember in Headingly it was a green seamer and Nass, you were the captain. You made Freddie Flintoff bowl short and bounders at me, and I kept telling Sachin ‘Let him bowl that length’. Because the difficult length was the one that was pitched up.”

The former Indian skipper concluded by speaking about what got him success as a player in England. He spoke about getting to know the pitches the more he played in England getting adjusted to the conditions.

“You play for a while; you learn to play good knocks. It depends; there is no hard and fast rule. The only thing is that you keep training and you make sure that you’re in touch and in a good position when you play Test cricket. Different times, differently. It depended on how my mind was, how confident I felt about your cricket. You practice differently when you play well, you try and keep your energy for the game. When you’re not playing well, you keep hitting balls in the nets. In this sport confidence matters a lot,” Ganguly said during the mid-session show on Star Sports.

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Sourav Ganguly-Nasser Hussain Revisit Old Rivalry

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