Cricket is a captain’s game, coach must take back seat, says Sourav Ganguly

Updated on Sep 25, 2018 12:45 pm IST

Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly has said “It is not like football. A lot of current cricket coaches think that they are going to run a cricket team like a football team, but cricket is a captain's game and coach has to take a backseat and that is important.” Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly is known to speak his mind and on Monday while launching his book 'A Century is not Enough' at the Symbiosis International (Deemed University).

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