New Delhi: Cricket fans were up for a surprise when former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly left out Mahendra Singh Dhoni from his IPL fantasy team he picked few days ago.
Ganguly's team surfaced on social media days after he said that Dhoni was no more a good T20 player. In the reported fantasy team, Ganguly picked Delhi Daredevils' Rishabh Pant in place of Dhoni, who hasn't been in the best of form in the tenth edition of the tournament.
However, the Prince of Kolkata cleared the air by saying the team wasn't picked by him and he doesn't play fantasy leagues.
"Hi all ..just saw an ipl fantasy team on my name ..it's not my twitter account nor my team ..it's fake ..I dnt participate in fantsy leagues," he tweeted.
Hi all ..just saw an ipl fantasy team on my name ..it's not my twitter account nor my team ..it's fake ..I dnt participate in fantsy leagues
— Sourav Ganguly (@SGanguly99) April 27, 2017
Here's the full list of Ganguly's reported squad:
Virat Kohli, Gautam Gambhir, Steven Smith, AB de Villiers, Nitish Rana, Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant, Sunil Narine, Amit Mishra, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Chris Morris.
IPL Fantasy League is a real-time tournament in which a member gets alotted points on the basis of players' real performance on the field.
Earlier in an interview to India Today Ganguly said, "I am not too sure if Dhoni is a good T20 player. He is a champion ODI player but when it comes to T20 cricket, in 10 years, he has got one fifty and that's not the best record."
"I will pick Dhoni for the Champions Trophy but he has to score runs," said Ganguly.
