India have produced several captains over the years and former India captain Sourav Ganguly and current captain Virat Kohli are among them. Although the debate can go on who has been India's best skipper among them, both Ganguly and Kohli have similarities as captain as both are known for their aggressive captaincy and never give up attitude.
Apart from the above qualities, there is another striking similarity between the two and former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan revealed that recently.
“He is very similar to Sourav Ganguly as well. A guy who backs his youngsters really, really well. Virat Kohli has that aura about him, that he goes out of his way to back the youngsters,” Pathan said in the latest episode of Star Sports chat show Cricket Connected. “We have seen that with Rishabh Pant, we have seen the press conferences, he goes and says, ‘No, we need to back a guy like Rishabh Pant purely on his potential’.”
While the ICC T20 World Cup has postponed, it has opened the window for the 13th edition of Indian Premier League. Moreover, India will also travel to Australia in December where they will paly a four-match Test series, and former captain and now the BCCI president Sourav Ganguly had said that he expects the team to win again. Last time India won the series against them when they toured to Australia in 208 under Virat Kohli's leadership.
“I have said that to Virat also,” Ganguly said to India Today in an interview. “I said, ‘because you’re Virat Kohli, your standards are high. When you walk to play, when you walk with your team, I, watching on TV, don’t expect you to just play well against Australia. I expect you to win. So for me, that is what it is. Because you have set the standards. It’s not anybody else. So you have to live up to the standards’.”
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