"I want Virat (Kohli) to win this tournament (Asia Cup)," Ganguly told a news channel here today.
"This would help Dhoni to come out of the comfort zone and help him to reinvent himself as a captain," he explained.
Rubbishing suggestions that it would be a test for Kohli as a captain, Ganguly said the Delhi batsman should enjoy captaincy and prove his strengths to the selectors.
Asked whether captaincy would have any adverse effect on Kohli's batting, Ganguly recollected the right-hand batsman's stellar role with the bat in the tri-series in West Indies last year.
"It would not be right to predict on Kohli's captaincy now. But I would like to remind everybody the way Kohli led the team and batted in the West Indies.