After the forgettable tour of England in the
just-concluded series, Team India will face a bigger challenge when they
travel to Australia in December, according to former captain Sourav
Ganguly.
He said the upcoming home series against
England, that starts on October 14, will not pose a threat to the
reigning world champions.
“England in India would
not be a challenge. It will be a bit more than what it used to be in the
past, when India played England in full strength,” he told reporters at
a promotional event here on Saturday.
India had a
disastrous July-September tour of England, where they lost the Test
series 0-4 to meekly surrender their numero uno Test status to the
Andrew Strauss-led team.
The reigning one-day
international champions did no better in the shorter version of the game
as they failed to win a single match in the rain-marred five-match ODI
series.
“I think the biggest challenge that will
identify (Mahendra Singh) Dhoni as a leader in world cricket is the tour
of Australia. If India does well then Dhoni will be terrific. We have
to wait and see (for that to happen),” Ganguly said.
He brushed aside the discussion on having a split captaincy for different formats of the game.
“It’s early days to talk about split captaincy after one series loss. I
don’t think we should even think about it at this stage. We will have
to wait and see how the team performs in Australia.”
England has Andrew Strauss leading the Test side, Alistair Cook for ODIs and Stuart Broad as the Twenty20 skipper.
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