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in a downward spiral, Team India?

Is there any one man enough to stop the fall? The Twenty20 is a distant memory. The euphoria is fast turning into a nightmare. This commetary says it all.   0.4 Lee to Ganguly, out Ganguly Run Out!! short of length delivery aimed into the rib cage, Ganguly gets on top of it and taps [...]

good one Dhoni, I hope you stay a fair captain

So Ganguly doesn’t fit into the team, if one has to believe Ajit Wadekar. Yet the first opportunity he gets to bat, he proves why he is needed. He with Tendulkar gave India the necessary start. While Tendulkar was surviving scare after scare, Ganguly batted in his new found assertive way, to see of the [...]

envy and prejudices, two stark realities of Indian cricket

  Regardless of hasty cover up statements, fact is, Ganguly was dropped inspite of being fit. Ajit Wadekar has persistently criticised Ganguly whenever possible. Ganguly selection debate rears head, yet again “How does he fit into the team? There is Uthappa, then Gambhir has scored runs in Twenty20 and of course there is Sachin. His [...]

Saurav Ganguly, and now the country wants him back

When Greg Chappell ruled supreme, when many cricketing pundits had declared IHateGanguly in a dotcom Rahul could-do-no-wrong Dravid was asked about Ganguly’s continued exclusion. It is reported his response was “we have other options”. Oh no we didn’t, and it has been proved in spectacular fashion. Chappell beat a retreat, Dravid followed reluctantly and the [...]

gingGangulygulyguly… @ Lords’ in ’96