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Indian
cricket skipper Saurav Ganguly tells BBC Hindi he is "keen
to open again"
In
an exclusive interview with BBC Hindi, Indian cricket skipper Saurav
Ganguly said he wants to open the Indian innings.
Ganguly
also said the sacking of South Africa's cricket captain Shaun Pollock
was unfair.
Speaking
on Tuesday 18 March, the eve of the Cricket World Cup semi-final
with Kenya, Ganguly said that he believes he is better as an opener:
"Only Sachin Tendulkar has been better than me as an opener,
I have scored about nine thousand runs with 20 centuries."
Ganguly
denied allegations that he was not willing to come down in the batting
order despite being in bad form: "I did leave the opening slot
not because I had difficulty in scoring runs. I had to come down
because Virnedar Sehwag was not doing well in the middle order."
Saurav
clarified that decisions are made based on the needs of the team
and not on personal grounds.
In
the interview the Indian skipper also felt the sacking of South
Africa's captain Shaun Pollock was not fair: "The captain alone
should not be blamed for the defeat. The South African cricket board
should have looked into the reasons of the bad performance of the
whole team before sacking him."
For
further information, audio online and the rest of the Cricket World
cup coverage, visit www.bbchindi.com.
Notes
to Editors
BBC
Hindi broadcasts five times a day bringing up-to-date news and current
affairs, sports and a weekly phone-in programme - Aapki Baat BBC
Ke Saath - to listeners in India, South Asia and the Gulf countries.
Hindi
programmes are available on radio and online at www.bbchindi.com.
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World Service broadcasts programmes around the world in 43 languages
and is available on radio and online at www.bbcworldservice.com.
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has a global audience of 150 million listeners while its websites
receive 75 million page impressions each month.
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