photomontage of fielders at silly point

please don’t grudge me this

Sorry guys.
I had to put this up today.
I have waited for 11 years, since the whippersnapper got his first at Lords.
I am just happy he got his 100 at Eden Gardens, and I wish I was there to see it.

Ganguly

Finally, Ganguly finds paradise at Eden

Anand Vasu in Kolkata: December 1, 2007

At 12.55pm on December 1, time stood still for a moment in this laid-back eastern city. When Sourav Ganguly pushed Danish Kaneria just wide of mid-off and ran a single, hands aloft in the air, the 50,000-strong crowd at Eden Gardens had finally witnessed something more than a decade in the making.

That he finally had a Test hundred against traditional rivals Pakistan will not mean as much to him as the fact that he had, in some token, paid back his faithful and often fanatical supporters, for Ganguly shares a bond with his fans that no other Indian cricketer does.

For Ganguly, Kolkata feels an unconditional love, the kind that asks for nothing in return and yet blindly accepts whatever it gets. There’s nothing objective about the manner in which Ganguly is assessed as a cricketer, and anyone who dares to contradict the overwhelmingly positive image is not spared. He’s the uncrowned prince of Kolkata, and on Saturday, in the company of VVS Laxman, the man who earned the position of the lord of Eden Gardens with his 281 against Australia in 2001, Ganguly rattled off a century as easily as he was batting in the bylanes of Behala, and not a Test match.

 

 

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  1. lbw
    Posted December 1, 2007 at 8:25 pm | Permalink

    It is a delight to see Sourav score a 100 at home.