Sourav Ganguly Quotes

To say that I wanted to become the captain is entirely incorrect. When Dhoni became captain and I played under him, we won the T20 World Cup.

My best India v. Pakistan moment is from our first match in the ICC World T20 2007, which was a tie.

We all grow up dreaming of playing international cricket.

I want to captain England in more Tests than anyone else.

I was part of the Australia team that lost the first Test at Edgbaston in 1997 and yet came back to win the series quite comfortably in the end.

I played my first World Cup game against South Africa where I scored 97 runs before being run-out by Jonty Rhodes.

The Ashes are the biggest Test series played in the world.

Pakistan always play well in England.

Big wins in the first Test of an Ashes series polarise everything moving forward.

The 2005 Test tour to India was special, as I captained and we won at Bangalore, and it was a great tour for us, and even winning against India at Lahore in 2004 was a memorable day for me.

There are cricket-loving people here, much like in Pakistan. Overall, I've enjoyed a lot playing in India in my cricketing career.

I have many, many fond memories of Yuvraj Singh. He started under my captaincy.

I'm most proud of a couple of things. Firstly what we managed to do with the team from 2009 to get them to win the Ashes in Australia. That was remarkable. And secondly moving England forward in white-ball cricket because that is where the game is going and we need to be at the vanguard.

Whenever you play international cricket, there is always a challenge.

It's not an issue for me if I captain England in 42 Tests or in 50. It's a question of what is best for the team in Test and one-day cricket.

The IPL is a different ball game. Going there and playing in England against England is a different thing.

As a young boy growing up it was my dream to play for Australia and to pull on the famous green and gold shirt to represent my country. To have been given the opportunity to not only fulfil that dream, but to have done it 79 times, and many of which as captain, makes me incredibly proud and thankful.

I've won an Olympic title and an U-20 World Cup, but it'd be really special to round things off with a Copa title with the seniors.

Regardless of where we play, we should play India on regular basis.

It has been a great honour to play for the West Indies, to hold a bat and to spend 17 years in international cricket. That is something I am proud of.

It's something that I've wanted to do for a while, play Big Bash. Unfortunately representing the Proteas for the bulk of my career over Christmas time we've always got Test matches on, the Boxing Day and New Year's Test matches. So I haven't been available.

Look at France and Didier Deschamps; he was just a guy who just did his job but he was captain of one of France's most successful teams. Then you've got Iker Casillas; he's not into PR or things like that, but he's one of the most successful captains of Spain.

In 2014, my first year as an England player, I got booed by some India fans at Edgbaston every time the ball went near me.

I came back from the World Cup and then started playing for Mumbai again. My game was the same because even in New Zealand, we played the One-day format.

It's every cricketer's dream to play in the World Cup.