Former captain Sourav Ganguly is confident of India’s success against South Africa in the final of the T20 World Cup on Saturday.
He has been impressed by Rohit Sharma’s leadership qualities which has played a big hand in India’s unbeaten run in the tournament.
“I’m very happy for Rohit Sharma. Life comes full circle. Six months ago he was not even the captain of Mumbai Indians and the same man is now leading India to a World Cup final, unbeaten,” Sourav said during a promotional on Friday.
The former BCCI president revealed that Rohit was reluctant to take up the captaincy role after Virat Kohli vacated the hot seat.
“He has played two World Cup finals where he has gone into the final unbeaten. That speaks of his captaincy and leadership qualities and I’m not surprised because he became captain when I was the BCCI president and when Virat didn’t want to captain India anymore.
“It took a lot of time to make him captain because he was not ready to captain. It took a lot of pushing from all of us to make him captain and I’m very happy to see the progress of Indian cricket under him.”
Sourav felt luck plays a big role in such tournaments.
“I don’t think he can lose two World Cup finals in seven (six) months. He will probably jump into the Barbados ocean if he loses two finals under his captaincy... He has led from the front, batted brilliantly... Hope India finishes on the right side, and they should play with freedom.
“They have been the best side of the competition. I wish them luck. Hope they have a little bit of luck tomorrow (Saturday) because that is required to win big tournaments,” he added.
