Saurav Ganguly, who according to few people is the best captian India ever had, must realize the need for new thinking to step in into India cricket. Let's not discuss about his success as India captian. Let's not discuss about his individual performance as captian. Take into consideration the number of years he's been serving as captian. I feel it's been too long. Given the fact that there are many players in the team who by all means have excellent leadership qualities, Ganguly should quit. He is trying to establish monopoly in the team, which certainly is no good. New captian will mean that there will be change of tactics on field, though the same bunch of players keep playing. Ganguly may rediscover his lost form, which can win us matches single handedly. This kind of ploy worked for Sri Lanka, England, South Africa and so on. May be we should try the same. The names we can consider for his replacement are Dravid, Kumble, Laxman or may be Kaif and if none of these ones, there's always the little genius himself(sachin). This move will certainly work. Let the selectors do this now or after our against Aussies in home series.
As far as Indian players are concerned, Yuvraj and Tandulkar should open the innings because of left and right hand combination. Shewag, Dravid, Ganguly and Dinesh Mongia should replace for Kaif.
While playing cricket with my friends in my earlier days, i remember the opposition guys from the sidelines tell their batsman,"Hit the Ball Towards Nishank, woh catch "raapegaa". A "Raaper" is the typical mumbai word for a guy having butterfingers.,and "raapega", means he will drop. Today, I see my self almost unflaterringly on TV, whenever Laxman drops a catch in the final.
Be it the final against Australia in India or then in the recently concluded Asia cup final, Laxman will never let the opposition down. He always drops a catch when THEY need it most. Against Austrlia it was 4 times, on Sunday, once was enough to gift away the final. The catch that he missed, resulted in a 100 run plus partnership for Sri lanka. Compare that to a similar catch that resulted in Ganguly's wicket and turned the match in SL's favour. I hope India's learns some day... one day, i hope "raapers" will be a thing that are seen only in gully cricket in India and not International cricket.
