The infamous incident of the 2000s, when Indian cricket was shaken by the allegations of players taking money to fix matches. Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja were the culprits, and that tarnished the image of Indian cricket.
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Sourav Ganguly opened up on the difficult period after India’s match-fixing scandal in the early 2000s.Ganguly revealed he personally asked Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble about fixing approaches.Ganguly credited India’s early wins under him for helping restore confidence inside the team.Indian cricket stepped into a new era of excellence under Sourav Ganguly. The Prince of Kolkata stepped in when Indian cricket needed someone to embrace the new role and lead a major turnaround. India needed a face whom the fans could rely on, and Ganguly was just that.
“The issues that the Indian team faced just before I became captain—betting, match-fixing—I didn’t even know about these things. I kept asking Sachin [Tendulkar] and Rahul [Dravid], ‘Does it actually happen?’ Has anyone approached you? Because no one had approached me. So, I spoke to Sachin. ‘Tujhe kisi ne puucha?’ He said no.
Sourav Ganguly recalls the anxiety ahead of his maiden series as skipper of the Indian team
When Ganguly was appointed the skipper of the Indian team, he had several seniors in the Indian side, with the likes of Anil Kumble, Sachin Tendulkar, and Javagal Srinath still in the side. He recalled that he was anxious for the team meeting, but then slowly things turned out to be okay after that first famous victory against South Africa.
"I still remember telling her I would keep the meeting short because the longer it went on, the more I’d have to speak. So we wrapped it up in about 15 minutes, and I quickly got a few things across. The next day, we won. In the following match in Jamshedpur, I scored a hundred. Slowly, everything started falling into place,” he added.
Sourav Ganguly's tremendous success as India's captain
He helped India bounce back, and under his leadership, India started to win overseas matches and series on a more consistent note. He also led India to a draw in a Border-Gavaskar Trophy during this tenure before winning the first-ever Test series against Pakistan, the NatWest Trophy, and lastly ending as the joint winners of the ICC Champions Trophy 2002.
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