Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Saturday said that Virender Sehwag "spoke foolishly" when he claimed that "lack of setting" cost him the national team chief coach's job.
"I've got nothing to say. Sehwag spoke foolishly (bokar moton boleche)," Ganguly, one of three members of the Cricket Advisory Committee that picked Ravi Shastri ahead of Sehwag and others as head coach, told PTI at Eden Gardens here.
Sehwag had in a TV interview claimed that he did not become the head coach because of lack of "setting" (common slang for hobnobbing with decision-makers).
The swashbuckling former opener also had said he was misled by a section of the BCCI into applying for the post.
Ganguly, however, refused to be dragged into the issue any further.
The Cricket Association of Bengal President sounded confident of a full house at the Eden Gardens during the second India-Australia ODI on September 21 despite concerns that the onset of Durga Puja season could be a dampener.
"All complimentary tickets of 25,000 is gone. We have also sold about 15,000 tickets out of the available 30,000. We still have five days left," Ganguly said.
The Durga Puja season is beginning with Mahalaya on September 19.
Kohli can break sachin’s records: viru
Former India opener Virender Sehwag on Saturday predicted that skipper Virat Kohli has at least 10 years of cricket left in him and the right-hander can easily overtake batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar's records.
"We never thought that there would be another (Sachin) Tendulkar. But (Virat) Kohli has changed this mindset. I think Virat can surpass Tendulkar's records," Sehwag was quoted as saying by India TV news channel. "Virat is just 28 years old and he will play at least for 10 more years and I think he will create some mega records and can surpass Tendulkar," he added.
Kohli recently hammered his 30th One-day International hundred during the tour of Sri lanka to equal Ricky Ponting's record. Kohli now ranks below Tendulkar, who had scored 49 ODI hundreds during his two-decade-long career. Recently, Kohli had said that it will take "one hell of an effort" to reach anywhere near Tendulkar's world record.