{"id":2867,"date":"2012-03-03T06:19:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T06:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2012-03-03T06:19:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T06:19:20","slug":"ganguly-backs-selectors-decision-of-keeping-sachin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"Ganguly backs selector\u2019s decision of keeping Sachin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/sourav-ganguly.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ganguly backs selector\u2019s decision of keeping Sachin\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi<\/strong>: Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly believes that the Indian selectors have made a right decision by including Sachin in the Asia cup squad. He said that including Sachin will help the young team that will be playing against Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the hosts Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Sachin Tendulkar is going through a tough time and has not been able to convert any of his score into a substantial one. Sachin is still looking for that elusive 100th hundred and has played in four series without getting a hundred since the World Cup triumph.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ganguly also believes that it is up to the little master which format he wants to play in as he is brilliant in all the formats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian squad for Asia Cup:<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MS Dhoni (Captain), Virat Kohli (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Yusuf Pathan, Vinay Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Ashok Dinda, Suresh Raina, R Ashwin, Rahul Sharma, Manoj Tiwary<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Indian Sports News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/sourav-ganguly.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ganguly backs selector\u2019s decision of keeping Sachin\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi<\/strong>: Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly believes that the Indian selectors have made a right decision by including Sachin in the Asia cup squad. He said that including Sachin will help the young team that will be playing against Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the hosts Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Sachin Tendulkar is going through a tough time and has not been able to convert any of his score into a substantial one. Sachin is still looking for that elusive 100th hundred and has played in four series without getting a hundred since the World Cup triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1314,559,556,544],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cricket-cricket","tag-asia-cup","tag-ms-dhoni","tag-sachin-tendulkar","tag-sourav-ganguly"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ganguly backs selector\u2019s decision of keeping Sachin - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2867\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ganguly backs selector\u2019s decision of keeping Sachin - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly believes that the Indian selectors have made a right decision by including Sachin in the Asia cup squad. 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