Ganguly threatened to end Sehwag's cricket career..!?
Akash Chopra has said that sourav ganguly threatened to drop virender sehwag from the indian team. The incident took place in 2003 and Sehwag scored a century in the next match threatened by Ganguly. Former indian player akash chopra has given an interview to a YouTube channel. He has shared this interesting incident in it. In that interview, akash chopra said, "Sourav Ganguly threatened virender sehwag once in 2003 when he was captain. Sehwag was playing badly. He was not getting runs as expected from his bat. He was getting out badly for more than nine consecutive matches. He was not playing well in the new zealand series as well. The next match is in Mohali. Ganguly, who went to Sehwag before the match, said that if he did not score any more runs, he would be removed from the indian team. Sehwag scored 130 runs in the next match.
akash chopra also made his debut in the indian Test cricket team under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly. He overheard this conversation between Ganguly and Sehwag when he made his Test debut against new zealand in ahmedabad in 2003. He has now shared this incident that happened about 21 years ago in an interview. akash chopra has played a total of 10 Test matches for the indian team. As Sachin was injured, Sehwag stepped in to open the indian team.
He scored a total of 437 runs in the Test match. He has played 7 IPL matches and has scored 53 runs with a maximum of 24 runs. After retiring from cricket, he became a full-time cricket broadcaster. He is also a commentator on StarSports and jio channels. It was during Ganguly's captaincy that many young cricketers including yuvraj singh and mohammad kaif made their debut in the indian team. Ganguly also gave akash chopra a chance to become a cricketer in the indian team.