Every cricketer goes through a phase when things fall apart and career looks downhill from there. They need to have faith in them and stand up again to fight back.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly went through a similar time when his coach Greg Chappell didn't show confidence in him, but he was still confident of his skills.
Ganguly talked about the phase in a recent interview with Bengali daily Sangbad Pratidin. “I didn’t lose confidence. I knew I’ll score runs if they play me. My coach didn’t go out in the middle to play Wasim, McGrath, and Shoaib, I did that and managed to score runs against them. If I had done that successfully for 10 years then I can do that again provided if get the opportunity,” he said.
The 48-year-old was not satisfied with team management's decision to drop him, but he didn't let himself feel deprive of confidence even in such a situation.
“Yes, I was very upset when was I dropped from the side but never lost confidence, not even for a second,” he added.
Ganguly further said blaming Chappell alone isn't right, but accepted that it was he who started everything.
“I don’t want to blame Greg Chappell alone. There is no doubt about the fact that he was the one who started it. He suddenly sends an email against me to the board which gets leaked too. Does something like this happen? A cricket team is like a family. There can differences of opinion, misunderstandings in the family but that should be sorted out with dialogue. You are the coach, if you believed that I should play in a certain manner then come and tell me. When I returned as a player he had specified the same things then why not earlier?”, said Ganguly.
