Pakistan plays chin music to Ganguly again

By John Cheeran
The anti-Dalmiya faction, led by West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, believes Sourav Ganguly still deserves a place in the Indian team.
Prasun Mukherjee, the Kolkata City Police Commissioner and the man who is opposing Dalmiya in the Cricket Association of Bengal elections, has said that Ganguly is out of the Indian team due to reasons other than cricket.
This statement is travesty of reality and is an effort to give legitimacy to the anti-Dalmiya campaign within the CAB.
I hold no brief for Dalmiya and have opposed him in the past for his skewed policies in Indian cricket. But it is ridiculous to witness a Save Sourav campaign so that another coterie can grab power in the CAB.
They are promising Kolkata that Dalmiya’s defeat will ensure Ganguly’s return to the Indian XI.
What delusions!
Everyone is familiar with facts of the Ganguly’s dismissal from the Indian dressing room. In his present form, the man can’t hold a bat properly against fast bowlers. Ganguly may have scored some runs in one-dayers but those days will never come back.
Because he has lost it mentally and physically.
Ganguly went to England to play for the Division B County side Northamptonshire. He has had a wretched time there. He could not score more than five runs in an innings in county cricket, yet he clamors for a place in the Indian national team?
Vaulting ambition, I must say.
Whatever it is Pakistan bowlers, currently on tour to England, have reduced the Bengal tiger to a kitten again. A thunderbolt from Pakistan fast bowler Shahid Nazir cracked Ganguly’s chin, putting an end to the former Indian captain’s ordeal at the batting crease. Ganguly was batting for Northamptonshire and he could make only five.
Nazir not only packed off Ganguly from the wicket, but also has cut short his county stint. Later, I understand that, Ganguly himself sent a thank you note to Nazir for delivering him from his miseries..
The man who exploited the 15-over limitations in one-day cricket to score runs could only aggregate 10 ( YES, TEN) runs in four first-class innings for Northamptonshire, leaving the management to rue their decision to pick him as a stop-gap arrangement.
And in Kolkata they want Ganguly to play for India again!
Does India need any more enemies?