GANGULLY

Greg Chappell thinks that Sourav Ganguly has a negative influence on the players. Tell us since you are very close to him being a team mate, how does Sourav Dada gets along with his Bengal team mates? See I don't know about other people what they think but as far as the Bengal Dressing Room is concerned, he has been good. He makes all these youngsters feel very comfortable because when most of them come into the Dressing Room to see someone like Sourav Ganguly who has 15000 International Runs with I think 34 international hundreds, it is very inspiring. You don't generally get to feel like he had achieved such great feats and he is very down to earth kind of person when he is in the Bengal Dressing Room and the youngsters are very happy to be around him. He talks with them and helps them out, so as far as Bengal Dressing Room is concerned, he is not a problem at all. Now that you are leading the Bengal Side, how does Sourav Ganguly help you out on the field? He does help me out a lot, I mean if he has any plan or anything for a bowler or a batsman in his mind, he just comes up to me and says "Deep, you can try this out". And the best part is that he doesn't expect me to do whatever moves he suggests. There is no compulsion on me and he wouldn't say "Deep, you have to do this" and he doesn't get upset or sad about it when I don't do what he had suggested. He leaves the decision making entirely on me and that's really great. And whenever we are in a tricky situation, I go up to him and ask "What do you think I should be doing now" and he is always there to help me out. Tell us what kind of person is Deep Dasgupta is and what does he do apart from playing cricket? Well, I think I am an easy going, fun loving kind of guy. If I am not playing cricket, I try to spend as much as time possible with my family. I have got a wonderful wife and a year and a half old amazingly cute son who always keeps me busy.