India, Aug. 17 -- Sourav Ganguly presided over one of Indian cricket's most celebrated dressing rooms, building a side that combined a fiercely competitive streak with a group of personalities unafraid to have fun at their captain's expense. Harbhajan Singh has now recalled one such episode when an April Fool's prank involving Yuvraj Singh, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid became so convincing that Ganguly was prepared to give up the India captaincy.

The incident occurred during India's 2005 home series against Pakistan, with the players deciding to target Ganguly ahead of an ODI. What began as an elaborate dressing-room joke quickly became serious for the captain once some of the team's senior-most figures joined the act. "Puri team ba...