The BCCI president Sourav Ganguly will be captaining the Indian team in a special game of Legends League Cricket (LLC) that will be organized in September this year. It will not be the original Indian national team, but the Indian Maharajas squad which will only have retired Indian players.
The second season of Legends League Cricket will take place in India after the first season is a decent success in UAE, and Sourav Ganguly has been named the captain of Indian Maharajas which will be up against World Giants in a special game of the league.
The team that Sourav Ganguly has got to captain in Legends League Cricket is very reminiscent of the team that he played with when he was representing the original Indian national team in the international circuit about a couple of decades ago in the early 2000s.
Likes of Mohammed Kaif, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan, Virender Sehwag, Parthiv Patel, and many more cricketers, who are part of the Indian Maharajas squad, actually started their careers under the captaincy of Ganguly and it was Ganguly who backed them and gave them enough confidence at the start of their careers.
It will be quite nostalgic for some of the Indian fans to watch Ganguly captain an Indian team again and almost the same group of players whom he used to captain 20 years back. It has, however, not been confirmed whether Ganguly will play the full season of LLC or just a special game.
World giants squad to participate in Legends League Cricket has also got some big names
The world giants squad, which has been named to play against Indian Maharajas, has also got some big names and it will actually be captained by Eoin Morgan who is only a recently retired international cricketer and was the captain of the England ODI side which won the World Cup in 2019.
India v/s Rest of the world.
📌Eden Gardens
🗓15 SeptemberSourav Ganguly will lead India and ROW will be led by Eoin Morgan.#KKR pic.twitter.com/sIhGCVZw4B
— KnightRidersXtra (@knightridersxtr) August 12, 2022
Apart from Morgan, the world giants squad also includes former heavyweights like Dale Steyn, Sanath Jayasuriya, Jonty Rhodes, Mitchell Johnson, and Muttiah Muralitharan.
So the India vs Rest of the World game is on September 15 at Eden Gardens. Sourav Ganguly leads India and Eoin Morgan the World. Part of Legends League cricket @SGanguly99 @ramanraheja @Eoin16 pic.twitter.com/waE9GWSMEr
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) August 12, 2022
