The Indian cricket team just picked a phenomenal series win against Bangladesh after absolutely dominating them with an innings defeat in both the Test matches. 

After receiving the trophy, the captain of the Indian side, Virat Kohli thanked former skipper and the current president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Sourav Ganguly for bringing about a winning culture in the dressing room. 

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"The idea is to establish yourself in the middle and we have learnt to stand up and give it back. It all started with Dada's team and we are just carrying it forward," Kohli said after bagging the series.

Now, the tale of how Ganguly's aggressive attitude as a leader rejuvenated the status of the Men in Blue especially amidst the spot-fixing allegations over its members and a chaotic environment in the Indian cricket board, is well known and talked about. 

Sourav Ganguly became captain and lifted Indian cricket out of turmoil after his predecessor Mohd Azharuddin was at the centre of the match-fixing scandal. To see them in one frame, when Ganguly is again back at the helm, is massively ironic. pic.twitter.com/HJ7YnidG0M

However, evidently, Kohli's comments seemed to have irked former Indian batsman and ICC Hall of Famer Sunil Gavaskar who said: "This is a fantastic win but I would like to make a point. The Indian captain said that this thing started in 2000 with Dada's (Ganguly's) team. I know Dada is the BCCI President, so maybe Kohli wanted to say nice things about him. But India were also winning in the '70s and '80s. He wasn't born then."

"A lot of people still think that cricket started only in 2000s. But the Indian team won overseas in the '70s. The Indian team also won away in 1986. India also drew series overseas. They lost like other teams did," Gavaskar added.

Maybe Kohli wanted to say nice things about BCCI president Ganguly: Gavaskar takes a dig at India captain pic.twitter.com/YPHiACxOnk

It was Sourav Ganguly's first series as the head of BCCI and he made some executive decisions like organising the first ever pink-ball Test in the country, in his hometown of Kolkata, which led to significant rise in Test-match viewership and a packed Eden Gardens stadium. 

Given Ganguly's aforementioned attitude towards acting on pressing matters and the fact that he is here to make significant changes within the Indian cricketing culture in a very limited time-span of less than eight months now, he is the most feared man right now. It is therefore obvious that literally anyone and everyone would want to be in his good books. 

“I know Dada is the BCCI President, so maybe Kohli wanted to say nice things about him,” Gavaskar's words suddenly sound a lot more wiser. 

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