Ganguly took over India's captaincy after the match-fixing fiasco in 2000 and proved to be a leader who believed in youth and putting them in the line of fire to get the best out of them. Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Virender Sehwag, Ashish Nehra, Mohammad Kaif and others are all such examples from that era.

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