Ojha keen to play overseas leagues

 Former India left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha, who recently drew curtains on his international career, is keen to compete in T20 Leagues abroad and will seek BCCI permission for exploring options. Ojha had anunced his retirement from international and first-class cricket last week.

"re are few things in my mind. I have been doing commentary and I am with BCCI. I will take advice from BCCI wher I can go and play in some leagues outside India but (only) if I get permission. I need to talk to BCCI and let's see what happens," Ojha told reporters on sidelines of DY Patil T20 Cup.

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Ojha played under charismatic Mahendra Singh Dhoni and he termed former skipper "bowler's captain.""He (Dhoni) was bowler's captain. I strongly believe that a bowler should have a captain who understands him. A lot of bowlers praise Dhoni because of dimensions he gives you, things that he helps you with like placing field, keeping your mind clear and those are important when you play high-intensity games," he said, while also lauding his Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma.
In early st of his career, Ojha had a successful spin partnership with R Ashwin in Tests, taking 20 wickets in 2011 home games against West Indies and 13 following year against New Zealand.

Asked wher he had any regrets in his career, Ojha, who had 113 Test wickets, quipped, "May be (would have played) more cricket for India".Giving an example of Shahbaz Nadeem, Ojha said re were many opportunities for left-arm spinners and eventually performance at domestic level would help m."How many (left-arm) spinners are re in our country who are ready to go and play. A maximum of four or five, so re is a lot of gaps.

"If you work hard and consistently perform in domestic cricket, you will be rewarded. Look at Nadeem, he has played well and end of day he got a chance, he is w a Test cricketer," he said. Ojha in his career was banned for a brief period after his action was found to be illegal. Asked wher clampdown on chucking affected his career, he said, "I will tell very clearly, what happened when I started playing, I developed few things which were t good for my career."Chucking is something which should be treated like an injury t like an insult because when I heard about it, I was shaken. Imagine a 15-16-year-old guy, so it (chucking) should be taken very carefully and y ( authorities) should be very sensitive in way y are dealing with those boys," he ted.

"I was back in just 22 days and began playing for Hyderabad again. I played for India 'A' as well. So that's how it went," Ojha said.

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