In Ian Botham’s Beefy's Cricket Tales, Ganguly spoke about India’s tour of England, he thought he was going to die when he got into a confrontation with a bunch of drunk teenagers.

Sourav Ganguly shared his experience, When Navjot Singh Sidhu and he got on the tube(train) and set off towards Pinner.

In the carriage, there was a group of young teenagers, two boys, and three girls, and they were drinking. Both were sitting opposite them and they could see that one of them was looking at them.

They knew that one of the guys was trying to get a reaction out of them just to start a fight. Sourav Ganguly wanted nothing to do and even asked Sidhu to remain calm.

But Sidhu jumped in and confronted the drunk teenager. Sourav Ganguly knew then that there was going to be some trouble.

There were some punches thrown and, just as they got to a station, Sourav pushed the lad and he fell over. He got up and the next thing he saw was a gunpoint on face.

In that moment one of the girls, grabbed the guy with the gun and pulled him away.

Later Ganguly concluded "Nobody knows what could have happened that day if the girl wasn’t there"