Do not fear failures: Sourav Ganguly tells team-mates

Mohali: Do not be afraid of failures and just keep giving your hundred per cent, these are the words that Pune Warriors India’s skipper Sourav Ganguly tells his players to keep their spirits up.
Ganguly says the dynamic nature of Twenty20, where a situation changes every few balls, increases the frequency of failures. "In T20, you don't have much time to come back. If you are not on the button for 20-40 overs, you are gone," Ganguly said while comparing the shortest version of the game with Tests and ODIs.


He said in a Test match, one can always recover from a bad session or even a bad day and in an ODI too, there is enough room to recover. "In [a] T20, mere 15 minutes can change the game and take it away from you," Ganguly, the veteran of 113 Tests and 311 ODIs, said as his team plays Kings XI Punjab here on Thursday.
To a question what he does to keep the confidence level of the players up when the team is not doing well? Ganguly said, "I tell them that there will be failures in this format, in every format for that matter, but more so in this format. There is no time to settle down. [So] the most important thing is to keep playing well. There are going to be good and bad phases. I tell them [players] to just keep playing freely. I also tell them that they have to be on top of their batting, bowling and fielding because every thing counts [in this format]."