NEW DELHI, FEB 28: Saurav Ganguly, who is to succeed Sachin Tendulkar as India's cricket captain from the five-match one-day series against South Africa, has sought more powers to choose the playing eleven, apparently wanting selectors to keep away once the 14-member team is named.``Once the 14-member team is selected, it should be left to the captain and coach to choose the final eleven,'' Ganguly said in an interview to Star News on Sunday.``But let's not talk much about it. it is what you do in the centre that matters more and not whether you are captain or vice-captain,'' he added.Ganguly skirted queries on the reported resistance among senior team members to Mohammed Azharuddin's comeback after a gap of eight months.``That's the past. He's back in the team and let's put the past behind,'' Ganguly replied.Azhar's selection for the one-day tri-series in Australia was reportedly opposed by skipper Sachin Tendulkar and coach Kapil Dev.``He has a job to do. and he is a good wristy batsman and fielder,'' the captain-in-waiting said about the 37-year-old former skipper.About leading a side with two former captains in it, Ganguly said he won't be feeling any pressure.``No no, not at all,'' Ganguly said when asked whether the presence of two former captains - Azharuddin and Tendulkar - would put any pressure while taking decisions in the middle.On the team's current form, which is at its lowest ebb after the debacle in Australia and the first Test defeat against South Africa in Mumbai, Ganguly said he felt India needed only one win to turn things around.He said, ``The team as an entity is a good one. We have good players in our side. you can't win everytime, but we'll do our best in the Bangalore Test.``We've had a rough time for the last few months, but we'll sit together, coach, players and officials, and probably things will change from then,'' he said.Ganguly said he has enjoyed captaining whenever he has been asked to take up the responsibility and said it won't be any problem now. Ganguly was the stand-in skipper for an injured Tendulkar for the Toronto one-day Cricket Festival last year and led India to a series victory over the West Indies.Bomb scare at Ganguly householdCALCUTTA: Hours before Sourav Ganguly took over as from Sachin Tendulkar as Indian cricket captain, his family members spent some anxious moments following a hoax bomb scare call here on Saturday.``Yes, it was terrible. We all got quite panicky,'' Chandi Ganguly, father of the star batsman, told PTI on Monday.Ganguly (Sr) said, a caller rang up their family printing press in the city around 1000 hours, claiming that a bomb had been planted there.Chandi immediately informed West Bengal Deputy Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya and the bomb disposal squad personnel of city police arrived in no time with sniffer dogs. After a trying two hours of frantic search, the police finally gave up saying the call was hoax.
