Sehwag once quoted- "I had consecutive failures as an opener in the beginning of my opening tenure & many one advised me to step down to lower order or there is a chance that I may get dropped. Media told that i am technically numb to face fast bowlers in opening spells...I was depressed and loosing confidence. Then Sourav came to me and told me this.
"Dont get tensed up, Just go & play your shots. Dont worry even if you score low. No one will touch you, No one will drop you. I am there.-Rest is history!
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly!
Some felt he couldn't play the bouncer, others swore that he was God on the off-side; some laughed at his lack of athleticism, others took immense pride in his ability to galvanise a side. Sourav Ganguly's ability to polarise opinion led to one of the most fascinating dramas in Indian cricket. Yet, nobody can dispute that he was India's most successful Test captain - forging a winning unit from a bunch of talented, but directionless, individuals - and nobody can argue about him being one of the greatest one-day batsmen of all time. Despite being a batsman who combined grace with surgical precision in his strokeplay, his career had spluttered to a standstill before being resurrected by a scintillating hundred on debut at Lord's in 1996. Later that year, he was promoted to the top of the order in ODIs and, along with Sachin Tendulkar, formed one of the most destructive opening pairs in history.
