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'We thought Sourav would be a footballer'

Sourav never showed any interest towards cricket before he was in his teens. Football was his passion in school."

"But on turning 13, he started developing a penchant for cricket, all the more so as my elder son Snehasish had already made a name for himself in first class cricket."

"As the owner of a cricket coaching school and then assistant secretary of the Cricket Association of Bengal, I thought of testing his talent and let him take part in a competitive match between Bengal and Orissa. Sourav was about 15 at that time. And he did not let me down. In fact, he scored 200. The rest is history."

Image: The palatial living room in Sourav Ganguly's home

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