Click to play videoKolkata: Having retired from international cricket, Sourav Ganguly will surely miss sharing the dressing room with his teammates. So what does life hold for him after retirement? CNN-IBN's Associate Cricket editor Nishant Arora caught up with Dada at his home in Kolkata.
CNN-IBN: It must be a fantastic feeling for you. When you left the Indian dressing room it was a happy dressing room, a victorious dressing room.
Sourav Ganguly: Oh yes, of course. When I announced my retirement, I hoped that it would finish this way. I finished with a smiling face on everyone.
I couldn't have expected more than this, beating the best team in the world 2-0 convincingly, in India, and performing so well, not just me but everyone. We finished (the series) with a lot of high. I couldn't have expected more than this.
CNN-IBN: You have got a T-shirt signed by the entire team and Sachin Tendulkar again failed to write correct Bengali on it.
Sourav Ganguly: Yes, it was pretty emotional, touching. I didn't even know about it. I had gone to do an interview so my wife took the shirt out from my bag and quietly asked all the boys to sign it. It was a nice gesture from her. It was the first time I found her so interested in the game.
They are a fantastic bunch of boys. You hear a lot of things when things don't go well, but unless and until you are actually in the dressing room you don't know what it's all about. So it's been a fantastic journey.
CNN-IBN: Sourav, how are you as a dad? Are you a strict father?
Sourav Ganguly: No, not really.
Dona Ganguly: He has his times. There are times he becomes strict and says 'I should discipline my daughter'. But at times he is so liberal, but that's during the times when he used to come back from tours. But when he would stay for a longer time he felt like she should be disciplined.
Sourav Ganguly: With me she (his daughter) can get away with everything.
(Catch the complete interview on "Simply Sourav" this Saturday at 1930 hrs IST and a repeat telecast at 1330 hrs IST on Sunday only on CNN-IBN. The full transcript will be available on www.ibnlive.com.)
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