Sourav Ganguly Backs Virat Kohli on Lack of Preparation Complaint For South Africa Tour - JPKee.com

New Delhi: Sourav Ganguly knows a thing or two about leading India overseas and he backed Virat Kohli on the latter’s demand for more time to get ready for the tough tour to South Africa. India tour South Africa soon after completing yet another home affair, this time with the touring Sri Lankans around. The South African tour will kick start with a Test series early next year.

Echoing Kohli’s concerns, Ganguly said, “He (Kohli) was talking about scheduling of cricket which is so correct. You got to give teams time to prepare when they go to South Africa.” Ganguly also lavished praise on Kohli who has notched up 50 International century at the Eden Test against Sri Lanka.

He said Kohli can challenge Sachin Tendulkar’s 49 ODI hundreds but the challenge would be to match the Little Master’s 51 hundreds in Test.

“Virat will get very close to Sachin’s ODI hundreds which is 49. He is already 32. He will get close to that. He has got to stay fit. When I was playing, from 1996-2003, I had 22 ODI hundreds in 7 years,” Ganguly said. “I see that with Kohli as well. He has got 30 odd in about nine years. It gets tougher with age. It got tougher for Sachin, it got tougher for me, it will get tougher for Virat Kohli,” said Ganguly, who has 22 centuries in 311 ODIs and 16 Test tons in 113 games. (With PTI inputs)

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