Judgement day for Ganguly

By John Cheeran
Today is the judgement day for Sourav Ganguly.
Be ready to hear Ganguly's announcement of retirement from all forms of cricket, if National selectors do not include him in the 30-strong list of probables. This list of worthies is for the Champions Trophy one-day tournament to be staged in October in India.
If Ganguly is ignored from the list of probables, this is it. The END.
His dream of playing in the 2007 World Cup will remain only a dream.
I do not expect India to win the Champions Trophy but my bet is that Rahul Dravid and company will at least make it to the semifinals. And a semifinal place for India should ensure the survival of the present bunch of one-day players with Suresh Raina and Mohammad Kaif fighting for their World Cup berths in the side.
Ganguly was finished as a Test match player at least three years ago, and he continued to play Tests for India only by abusing his privilege as the captain of the side. Ganguly has struggled for runs in both versions of the game since he has been booted out of the squad by coach Greg Chappell.
He had an abysmal run in Ranji Trophy and his latest adventure in English County cricket for Northamptonshire was nothing but a disaster. Kiran More and his colleagues must be crazy to even think of Ganguly as an India player now.
Ganguly, one should remember that, even betrayed his former mentor Jagmohan Dalmiya to stage a comeback through this list of probables.
Ganguly's spin doctors did not rest idle even after the email fiasco and defeat in the elections to the Cricket Association of Bengal. It came as a shock to me that Reuters ran a highly uncalled for speculative story that quoted an Indian selector not willing to be identified as saying that Ganguly still has good chances of coming back into the India squad.
When did Reuters buy shares in Indian cricket, or for that matter, in Ganguly's food joint in Calcutta?
This is the time to think cricket and delete Ganguly from the system. Not even Dalmiya would shed a tear for him.