It is not often that I comment, let alone write about Cricket. In a country obsessed by cricket we do have our fair share of cricket columnists, analysts, doomsayers and well-wishers. So adding to the plethora of cricket analysts doesn't really help.
But I had to write something.
The fact of the matter is Sourav Ganguly shouldn't have been dropped.
Even the most die hard Gangluy basher is agreeing to the fact that he is unfortunate. For a Senior player with the stature as Ganguly, he was treated rather shabbily.
Ok, I admit, he did not score as much as he could have. But did Gambhir score more? Maybe he is young. Alright. Parthiv Patel was young too. We lost the series to Australia in Australia because of his poor showing in the third test match. He went. Shouldn't Gambhir go too ? Not that I have any personal contempt for Gambhir. But the logic defies me. If he was to be treated shabbily, he shouldn't have been recalled in the first place.
Whatever anyone says, we have to give credit to Ganguly for his knock of 40 and 39. In face of adversity of the pitches and personal anguish alike, his knock were gritty ones. I won't go to mention his exploits as a player and captain, everybody knows that. And as our team won, he should have been given another chance. Wassim Jaffer, on the other hand may not get a chance to play in this series. It would have been wise to let Ganguly to at least play the full series.
Trust me that being insulted like this humiliates and hurts a lot.
Selectors, if you can act maturely please do. A third standard student is more wise than you nowadays or so it seems
Peace.
3 comments:
Hey Debu i m totally unaware n least intrstd abt wt u hv written bt stil since i promised to do it i m postin a comment abt it. Wel i dnt knw d matr so i wont comment abt that bt ya u write gud stuf so keep doin that. MANY MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY....
Echoing your words, thoughts and emotion. You sound v.much in control but I couldn't help take a bite! Check it out if you feel like it.
Well said. It is time we stand up for something isn't it?
Yea but what about his recent tantrums of not opening and asking dravid to open? Dude Dravid is for the solid middle order and Ganguly is an opener. So how now Ganguly bashers?
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