Tendulkar Should Reconsider ODIs, Rotation Policy Absurd: Ganguly

Former Indian captain and Sachin Tendulkar’s former teammate Sourav Ganguly has said that the maestro needs to reconsider whether he stands vis-à-vis ODI cricket. Tendulkar, who played his first ODI series since the World Cup, in Australia, has shown indifferent form in all the games that he has batted in.

Ganguly was critical of Tendulkar’s decision to play in the ODIs once in a while and said that it does not help the team or Tendulkar himself to do so.

The former Indian opener said, "Sachin has to ask himself whether he is good enough to play one-day cricket day in and day out; whether it's helping him missing tournaments and playing a one-day series after eight-nine months, whether it's helping him as a one-day player or if it's helping the Indian one-day team. If Sachin can't get an answer to these questions, he has to go."

Ganguly also said that he did not expect the selectors to approach someone as huge a figure as Sachin Tendulkar and it needed to be the great man’s decision.

Earlier, Ganguly had also sounded out that India needed different captains for different formats of the game. He also disagreed with Dhoni on the issue related to his rotation policy, where only two of the three seniors – Sehwag, Gambhir and Tendulkar – were played in the 11 for five of the six games so far.