Sourav Ganguly hopes his team mates are not dragged into the controversy over coach Greg Chappell's bid to have him removed as captain.
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"I think the best thing they should do is to keep quiet."
Ganguly is under pressure after Chappell sent an e-mail to the Indian cricket board criticising him. Indian media said on Friday he had described Ganguly as unfit to lead any more.
The Indian players landed in Mumbai early on Saturday after their Test series victory over lowly Zimbabwe and straight into the storm raised by the captain-coach row. It was the team's first test series victory outside the sub-continent since 1986.
Chappell did not travel with the players.
Ganguly was mobbed by the media at Mumbai and Kolkata airports over the issue which has been splashed on front pages and debated on television.
"I'm sure the board will ask for my point of view and I will explain every detail from day one till the last day of the tour," Ganguly told reporters.
"Sourav has got a lot of things to say but only before the board."
REVIEW MEETING
Cricket officials have said Chappell's comments would be discussed at a committee which meets on Tuesday to review the team's recent poor showing in one-dayers in Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
"I cannot stop Greg Chappell from giving comments from his point of view," Ganguly said. "I honestly don't know why he has done this, why he has made such a comment.
"Whatever I say will be blown out of context and conclusions would be made. I don't want to do that as the captain of the team."
Ganguly, who has led the side since 2000 is India's most successful Test captain with 21 wins.
The row broke during the first Test in Bulawayo last week after Ganguly, having hit his first Test hundred since November 2003, told the media that Chappell wanted him to sit out and play an in-from batsman.
Ganguly was criticised for breaching convention by making dressing room discussions public. Chappell then said he had intented only to motivate the player.
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