I do agree. The situation was very badly handled. Call me pessimistic but i do not see a great improvement with Pawar coming to power and whatever narrow politics have been done will still be there. Everything remains the same only the faces have changed. Like to mention here that i'm a hardcore Ganguly fan and in reference to your post...yes its the way that dada is being treated and insulted... thats what has hurt us. A man of his stature deserved a lot more respect...from the selectors, the board and the "knowledgeable" Indian fans.
In the entire article writer says that one should not just take ganguly as a centre issue, but looking at conclusion i think writer himslef is very much influenced with ganguly and is his centre issue. He is repeatadly mentioning about ganguly contribution but he is forgetting his misbehaviours and non performance. I think we need to take into consideration what one has contributed in past then our team will be full of vetrans. Why do writer is just concern about gangulys inclusion in the indian team. What about many talent unnoticed youngsters? Why is not in your agenda. I think rediff should refrain from publishing articles which are ment for acheiving personal agendas. I found writer most positively biased for ganguly and negatively biased for rest of the team.
Approps the artical, there is no doubt that a thorouh enquiry is a MUST for clearing the mess created by the Sourav / Chapell controversy. Apart from the two main, the then board also played a significant role by leaking out the Chapell email. In the whole polarisation one tends to forget the sequence of events that have followed and the pattern has a method in it's madness. Let me stick to the present little episode: It was Ganguly who first broke the news to the public while in Zimbabwe and subsequently the email was leaked from the board. Significantly, Greg has not made a single public comment or statment till date. Whatever news on the views of Greg are those from the correspondents of the electronic and print media attrributing the news to 'sources in the board '!!. This point gets conviniently forgotten during the debates. Another significant point to observe is that Ganguly though has spoken enough on his keenness to return to the team, he has not spoken a single word against the treatment meated out to the same team by the Calcutta crowd. Forget condemning he has not even expressed his displeasure! Was not all the farcas because of him? Can somebody explain this?
The article confuses one and all. It would have been better to suggest a few things out right than give all those unecessary details which we already know. Post-mortem to whatever has happened will not serve any purpose.
Sharad Pawar, please go ahead with what you have in mind... Have a CEO, get in Management grads and a professional approach to Cricket in India.
The enviable position that Dalmiya held for such a long time - unchallenged - will be rendered by Shard even more enviable with his political and financial muscles.
It is likely in the coming days the match-fixing could be more obvious and perhaps given a legal make-up in the form of lotteries on several counts that the people gamble upon in a series, on individual matches, tests, ODIs, wickets, balls, runs, and so on.
Under any and all circumstances, it is most likely that Sharad would, and he perhaps should, exploit his position much more efficiently than did Dalmiya, who, though enjoying political backing, was not a seasoned political himself lest his premises would have not been raided.
With Sharad it is a different story altogether.
He would do all that Dalmiya did + much more, and there would be nobody to challenge him, at least as long as he is a part of governments.
It will be in the best interests of our coach, the captain and the players to co-operate fully with Sharad if they all want to simultaneously prosper with him beyond their wildest dreams.
Why Prem is bombarding us with such high english. Simple truth is that era of Sourav as well as of Dollar-miya is over. Merely bringing money and money only at the cost of so many things is what Dollar-miya will be remembered (domestic as well as internationally). Am being a close follower of domestic Ranji-Duleep trophies, could see that both these tournaments have got zero value at least for last 5 years. Still remember, Sharjah fiasco, when during bad lights, our batsmen reluctant to continue, and Asif Iqbal running on the pitch to command umpires continue the game which ultimately India lost (Manoj Prabhakar was the batsman who complained to umpire of bad light). Where was Cricket and its rules, then? Wishing Sharadji, all the good luck to clear the image which is tarnished by the previous body, and take India and ultimately Cricket of India, all levels, to the top.
Best of Luck to you Pawar Saheb and your team. ramesh gurjar
sharad pawar is a political man arming for power always. what he'll do is a big question, but past history suggests that he'll try to retain his pwer for a longer period as BCCI is the richest sport oganisation in India, probably the richest cricket board of the world.
