sourav ganguly steve waugh toss controversy story

Waugh wrote the story in the book Out of My Comfort Zone
After losing the first Test, India bounced back in the series under Sourav Ganguly and won the remaining two matches. Apart from India’s victory, the 2001 Test series is remembered for Ganguly’s mind game. At that time Sourav Ganguly had made Waugh wait for the toss. The Australia veteran felt so bad that he mentioned this in several articles apart from his book ‘Out of My Comfort Zone’.

Sourav Ganguly disclosed after years
Waugh has mentioned on several occasions that he was annoyed with Ganguly in the 2001 series because the then Indian captain would turn up late for the toss. The former BCCI president later talked about why he used to come late for the toss in that series. The former Indian captain said that it was an accident as he had left his blazer in the dressing room.

Ganguly told his story
He told that he was nervous as this was his first big series as captain. Australia, on the other hand, were the best team. Ganguly said that he had initially forgotten his blazer, but realized that Waugh had pulled it off. He said he was a little jittery about it all and it worked wonders for us as we won the series 2-1.

On the other hand, another story is told that the then Australian coach John Buchanan ill-treated Team India’s fast bowler Javagal Srinath. Ganguly was angry with this. However, later when they came together at the Wankhede Stadium, they called each other friends.

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