Raj Singh Dungarpur, the manager of India cricket team that tours Pakistan, has told the Headlines Today, the India Today Group TV channel, that Sourav Ganguly is the laziest cricketer in Indian team. That’s what the channel says.
If that is the case, well, everyone knew it for years and years.
What’s new about the statement? I have said it in the past; so has Dungarpur, so have others who watched Indian cricket over the years.
Is it newsy, because it came on the eve of the Pakistan tour?
It is not for nothing that Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq insisted on the inclusion of Ganguly in the Indian team. Pakistan knows a lazy Ganguly will make their cause of victory easier.
In the interview telecast by Headlines, Dungarpur was speaking about what had happened during former coach John Wright’s tenure.
Let’s have Dungarpur quotes.
“Even Wright had a huge problem with Sourav. Sourav is not a student of
the game. As a captain he was never a role model. A captain cannot be the
laziest cricketer, possibly the worst fielder in the side.”
Even if one wants to haul Dungarpur over the coals, how’s that possible?
Dungarpur has not said Ganguly is the laziest, what he has said is that a captain cannot be the laziest cricketer.
I can’t figure out how on earth you can quarrel with that statement.
I can only sense the desperation of TV channels when it comes to the coverage of cricket.
Though they are a visual medium, they cannot show the game or clippings of the game because someone else has taken the telecast rights.
So TV channels like Headlines Today end up scrambling over peripherals like Chappell’s finger and Dungarpur’s plain speaking.
Go, go and get the telecast rights.
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