'How does question even arise': Sourav Ganguly's emphatic declaration on India's preparation for Border-Gavaskar Trophy

India played an intra-squad match against India A at the WACA ahead of the first Test against Australia in Perth

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has rubbished worries about the team's preparedness for the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia. India's 10-year dominance of the trophy, which includes an unprecedented two consecutive wins in Australia, had already provided a lot of spice ahead of the five-match Test series that starts on Friday. That has only been scaled up with India being subjected to a historic 3-0 whitewash at home by New Zealand at home and a few injury scares before the first Test in Perth.

Much of the worries over India's batters, in particular, possibly not being prepared enough stems from their abject failure against the Kiwi spinners at home. (HT_PRINT)

“Undercooked is a term used when you haven't played any Test cricket at all. They have just played five Tests in last seven weeks so how does the question even arise?” Ganguly is quoted as saying by PTI. Much of the worries over India's batters, in particular, possibly not being prepared enough stems from their abject failure against the Kiwi spinners at home.

Ganguly, however, feels that the defeat to New Zealand won't have much of an effect on India during he series in Australia. "I can understand that the defeat against New Zealand was unexpected but you have to understand we played on some extremely difficult tracks. In Australia, the tracks will be good for batting," Ganguly said.

'Stop playing on rank turners'

"Also on turners, you need to learn to grind before you can attack. There are two types of tracks where you can't just hit through the line and get out of trouble. One is a seaming track and other being a rank turner," he said.