Sunday, July 30 2006 15:11 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi : Sourav Ganguly may have lost his captaincy and a place in the Indian team after a bitter spat with current coach Greg Chappell but it now transpires that even the previous coach John Wright favoured his sacking.

Admitting a fall out with Ganguly towards the end of his stint with the Indian team, the former New Zealand skipper has said there were times when the Bengal batsman might have also wanted a change of coach.

Wright has let out some sensational inside informations regarding his much-speculated relationship with Ganguly and controversial selection decisions in his new book 'Indian Summers', released in his home country on Thursday.

"As much as I respect Sourav Ganguly and acknowledge his record as captain and contribution to cricket, I believe there were sound arguments for a change in leadership towards the end of my stint," Wright says in the book.

"There might well have been times when he favoured a change of coach. What really mattered that the two of us saw the bigger picture, worked as a partnership to provide leadership on and off the field and got results. In that last season though, the results dried up," he writes.

Wright also says that it was Ganguly who masterminded the appointment of Sunil Gavaskar as consultant for India's home series against Australia in 2004-05 without taking him into confidence.

"Two days before the first Test (in Bangalore, against Australia 2004), I was notified that the legendary Sunil Gavaskar would be joining us as a batting consultant," he writes.