Sourav Ganguly finally spills beans on Lord’s shirt incident

After 16 years, Ganguly finally decided to speak on the incident with fond memories and revealed that VVS Laxman was trying to stop him from removing his T-shirt when the latter waved it in the Lord’s balcony. He also stated that the team back-then had a contradicting mix and it was fun to be a part of that team. 

“He (Laxman) was trying to stop me. He was on my left and Bhajju (Harbhajan) was behind me. As I started to take off my shirt, Laxman held it and kept telling me not to do it. Bhajju, who was standing behind me, asked me what he should do. I just said, “You take it off as well.” There was a great mix of mad people like me in that team with the likes of Bhajju, Zaheer, Viru (Sehwag), Yuvraj. Then we also had the likes of Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman in the team,” Ganguly said in the popular chat show "Breakfast with Champions".

“The idea of doing it came to me right then. Flintoff had inspired me because (a year ago) we had been 3-2 up against England going into the Wankhede game. England won that game to level the series. After Srinath got out, Flintoff did his celebration (jersey waving) at the Wankhede. So I thought let’s do it at Lord’s as well. But I am embarrassed by that incident. My daughter saw it and asked me why I had done it. She asked me if this was something that had to be done in cricket,” he said.