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Ganguly would love to have Akram help his bowlers
Melbourne, Nov 24: The speculation over Wasim Akram being asked to take over as bowling consultant of the Indian cricket team may have ended but skipper Sourav Ganguly is still looking up to the Pakistani great for tips for his pacemen.
Melbourne, Nov 24: The speculation over Wasim Akram
being asked to take over as bowling consultant of the Indian
cricket team may have ended but skipper Sourav Ganguly is
still looking up to the Pakistani great for tips for his
pacemen.
While conceding that Akram would have been a "sensitive
selection", Ganguly hoped that the former world record holder
would especially help out the young left-arm pace brigade of
Ashish Nehra, Zaheer Khan and rookie Irfan Pathan.
"Akram would be a sensitive selection though I would love to have him around and help our guys out," said Ganguly.
Akram, who has retired from international cricket, would be in Australia to commentate on the four-test series for a TV channel.
Ganguly said "I rate Akram as the best left-arm paceman I have ever seen. I know he would be around with a television network and hopefully he could offer tips. He would be useful also because we have quite a few left-arm paceman in our squad.
"Our boys in the past too have sought him out for his advice," said Ganguly.
On the bribery scandal which is hogging the headlines in newspapers back home, Ganguly said he still found the allegation that Abhijit Kale offered Rs 20 lakh to selectors for a berth in the national side, hard to believe.
"Frankly, I haven't quite followed the developments on the (bribery) issue. But I really don't think it happens. In my experience, I have never seen it happen at the India level but I can't say about the 'A' side selections."
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"Akram would be a sensitive selection though I would love to have him around and help our guys out," said Ganguly.
Akram, who has retired from international cricket, would be in Australia to commentate on the four-test series for a TV channel.
Ganguly said "I rate Akram as the best left-arm paceman I have ever seen. I know he would be around with a television network and hopefully he could offer tips. He would be useful also because we have quite a few left-arm paceman in our squad.
"Our boys in the past too have sought him out for his advice," said Ganguly.
On the bribery scandal which is hogging the headlines in newspapers back home, Ganguly said he still found the allegation that Abhijit Kale offered Rs 20 lakh to selectors for a berth in the national side, hard to believe.
"Frankly, I haven't quite followed the developments on the (bribery) issue. But I really don't think it happens. In my experience, I have never seen it happen at the India level but I can't say about the 'A' side selections."
Bureau Report