(Image source from: When Sachin Tendulkar rebuked Sourav Ganguly})

The otherwise cool Captain Sachin Tendulkar almost packed off Sourav Ganguly halfway from the 1997 Caribbean Tour for disobeying him - not going for a morning run - after a crushing Test defeat, Ganguly reveals in a new book.

The incident took place after the third Test in Barbados which India lost by 38 runs.

Ganguly begins the anecdote: "My fault, actually." Then he goes on write, "Sachin was utterly dejected and very angry with us. To get him to think positive and stop beating himself and us up so much, I asked him to tell me what to do. "Go for a run tomorrow morning," he said.

"It's a story to tell now, but when he found out that I had missed the morning run the next day, his face was almost purple with anger. He told me, in language that cannot be printed, that he was going to send me home and I should sort myself out because my career could be ending. The thought of being sent home was enough to light a fire under my shoes. I wouldn't have broken any records, never have, never will, but from the next morning, I was up and running."

Ganguly's recollection is titled as 'Gifts, appetite, game sense and very little Bengali, from the book, Sachin Tendulkar'.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury