Former Indian cricket Sourav Ganguly has clarified that his Instagram account is fake and the messages it showed for Virat Kohli and Indian team after the first Test were not posted by him. Ganguly took to Twitter and mentioned that his account on Instagram is fake and urged everyone to not take news or quotes from it.
Ganguly posted on Twitter, “My Instagram page is a fake one. Please don’t pick up any news or quotes from it. Will report to Instagram immediately.”
My Instagram page is a fake one ..please don’t pick up any news or quotes from it ..Will report to Instagram immediately @samiprajguru @imVkohli
— Sourav Ganguly (@SGanguly99) August 6, 2018
It is to be mentioned that many news portals considered Ganguly’s message for team India on his Instagram account as real and picked up his quote in their stories. In the message, Sourav Ganguly advised Indian skipper Virat Kohli to be consistent with the choices of Indian batsmen.
Ganguly, in his Instagram post, wrote, “If you’ve to win a Test then everyone has to score runs. This was the first Test in a 5 match series & I think this team has the capability to come back & play well. AjinkyaRahane & MuraliVijay will have to show some determination since they have scored runs in these conditions before”. “I don’t think the captain is responsible for the loss. If you’re the captain then you’ll be criticised for a loss the same way as you’re congratulated for a win”, he added.
The former India captain also warned against making wholesale changes in the wake of the defeat. “One criticism for @Virat.Kohli is that he should give a consistent run to his batters & more time before dropping them. The failure against swing in English conditions can’t be used as an excuse any more as everyone knows that it’s what you get when you come to England”.
The message, which gives an analytical opinion to team India, is not given by Sourav Ganguly. It was posted by the Instagram account with username @sganguly99. The account has been removed from Instagram now.