Sourav Ganguly went shirtless at Lord’s balcony and gave Indian cricket a memorable symbol.© Twitter
On July 13, 2002, Indian cricket were given certainly one of its permanent pictures when nearest Republic of India captain Sourav Ganguly celebrated shirtless from the balcony of the hallowed Lord’s dressing room next the ‘Males in Blue’ got here from the threshold of defeat to overcome England and raise the NatWest Trophy. Ganguly used to be clearly incensed about the way in which England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff had taken off his blouse throughout a fit on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai throughout an previous excursion and used to be ready to go back the praise.
On the other hand, Republic of India, chasing a immense 325-run goal, have been right down to 146/5 at one degree. An unbelievable 121-run sixth-wicket arise between Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif introduced Republic of India into the sport and nearest Kaif were given some an important aid from Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan to safeguard that Republic of India emerged implausible winners via two wickets and Ganguly were given his presen.
July 13, 2002 – #TeamIndia received the NatWest layout ultimate #ThisDayThatYear @MohammadKaif @ImZaheer @YUVSTRONG12 @SGanguly99 pic.twitter.com/jKeFXEmCgk
— BCCI (@BCCI) July 13, 2017
Virender Sehwag performed in that fit. He had an hilarious rationalization on that incident. Talking throughout the foundation of former BCCI Common Supervisor Amrit Mathur’s retain: “Pitchside: My life in Indian cricket,” Sehwag joked: “Dada celebrated without his shirt because he wanted an endorsement deal from an undergarments brand.”
“He wanted to give a befitting reply to Flintoff who did the same in Mumbai,” Sehwag added.
He additionally recounted any other incident involving Ganguly. “After a bad start to the 2003 World Cup our coach John Wright asked who should open. We all got together and wrote our suggestions. Out of the 11 chits only one had ‘Saurav-Sachin’ written on it. Only Saurav Ganguly only wrote his name on his chit. Everyone else wrote mine and Sachin’s name. Since then Sachin and I started opening and Dada very graciously came in at no.3,” he stated.
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