Former Indian captain and current BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has spilled the beans and shared his feelings as why he is no longer the part of Kolkata Knight Riders.

When the Indian Premier League started in 2008, Ganguly was chosen as the the captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders franchise.

All eyes were set on him for a stupendous win, however, that didn’t happen and KKR finished 6th in the inaugural season while Ganguly faced some issues with the team management.
Eventually, Gautam Gambhir took over from Ganguly in 2011 and led KKR to two IPL titles in 2012 and 2014.

Opening up on the entire episode, Ganguly recently revealed that he had also asked SRK to provide him with the freedom to navigate the team.

“I was seeing an interview where Gautam Gambhir had said Shah Rukh Khan had told him in the fourth year ‘This is your team, I will not interfere.’ That’s what I told him in the first year. Leave it to me. It didn’t happen,” Ganguly said in an interview with Gautam Bhattacharjee on his YouTube channel.

“The best IPL teams have been those that have left the team to the players. Look at CSK, MS Dhoni runs it. In Mumbai also, no one goes up to Rohit Sharma and tells him to select certain players,” Ganguly said.

“Thought process was the issue there. The coach (John Buchanan) believed we needed four captains. So it was just a difference of opinion, he thought, ‘Let me have 4 captains, then I can run it my way.’”

“The problems (with Buchanan) started towards the end of the first season. The problem was not me, the problem was the system of having one captain. We had Brendon Mccullum, we had x, we had a bowling captain, and I don’t know the captain for what else,” Ganguly said.

Ganguly left the KKR franchise after the third season and joined Pune Warriors India. He retired from the game in 2012. He is now the mentor of the Delhi Capitals franchise.