“Sourav has agreed to deliver the lecture and it will be a great honour for us since he has been one of Indian cricket’s most successful captains,” the late Dilip Sardesai’s wife Nandini told MiD DAY yesterday. Today is the former India batting stalwart’s fifth death anniversary. He scored three hundreds in India’s historic 1971 Test series win over the West Indies in the Caribbean.

Sourav Ganguly