Make Ganguly a permanent member of Team India

By John Cheeran
Sourav Ganguly has usurped the place of a deserving Zaheer Khan as a batting allrounder purely based on his past and the collective fantasies of Calcuttans on what Ganguly could achieve in his twilight.
I have a suggestion to the national selectors, better still, to the BCCI.
Make Sourav Ganguly the permanent member of the Team India. In one dayers, inTests, in Twenty20.
After all Jagmohan Dalmiya has managed to be the life-time president of the BCCI during the last AGM.
Let Dalmiya anoint Ganguly as the mascot of Indian cricket. Make him the Super Sob of Indian cricket.
Don't let him retire.
I wish Clive Lloyd's fearsome pace battery plied their trade in contemporary cricket. Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall, JoelGarner, Wayne Daniel and Patrick Patterson...
May be then, we can bury many of these comeback fantasies in the 22 yards and leave selectors in peace.