Tendulkar, 30, is widely acclaimed as the game's foremost batsman, but Ganguly would be happier if he spent more time in the nets working on his bowling technique.

"To be honest that's one area we're looking to develop," Ganguly said on Wednesday of Tendulkar's part-time leg-spin.

"But with Sachin it depends on how he feels. There are days when the ball comes out well from his hand and that's the day when you make him bowl quite a bit. Sachin can turn the ball. He turns it in a big way, but there are days when he bowls a few loose balls and that takes the pressure off the batsmen.

"But leg-spin is a difficult art and you have to keep practising, especially the control.

"As a captain I try to tell him he should bowl more leg-spin and to practise it in the nets but he also keeps on telling me that he doesn't want to practise leg-spin because he's a batsman and he's trying to work hard on his game as a batter.