Former Indian Skipper Saurav Ganguly's love for the game of football is well-documented and on Sunday his joy knows no bounds as he was gifted a customized jersey with "DADA" written on it by none other than top La Lila club FC Barcelona.
Barcelona and colloquially as Barça is an experienced football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Barcelona is one of the most widely supported teams in the world, and the club has one of the largest social media following in the world among sports teams.
Ganguly recently posted a photo on Twitter along with her daughter Sana of his visit to Barcelona recently.
Ganguly is also the co-owner of the Indian Super League team ATK. The team is owned by Kolkata Games and Sports Pvt.Ltd which encompass of Ganguly, businessmen Harshavardhan Neotia, Sanjiv Goenka and Utsav Parekh. In the first three seasons, the team was also co-owned by Spanish La Liga club Atlético Madrid before Goenka bought the shares.
Coming back to cricket, Ganguly, who knows a thing or two about the way Australian media behaves, has said that India can win both the Tests and that the team has the firepower to bounce back after the reversal in Perth.
Ganguly has also asked Virat Kohli and company to come up with a more intrusive plan against Nathan Lyon and aim not to give him any wickets in the forthcoming matches.
"I had thought of sending a text to Kohli but I haven't done it yet. I wanted to tell him that you shouldn't give so many wickets to spinners outside the subcontinent. There is no doubt that Nathan Lyon is a great spinner but so were Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan, and Graeme Swann," quoted by Ganguly.
"They have shown him too much respect by defending a lot of deliveries outside the off-stump. Instead, I feel they should attack him more and look to build towards at least a total in excess of 300-350," he added.
The former Indian captain was not very happy with the repeated failures of the Indian batting order and said that despite journeying the side back in 2014, the batsmen have not shown any signs of enhancement.