ganguly will be in the field . very nice news. cricket is to honour the brave and honest player. special appreciation to dubai people and mcc. everybodt will enjoy ganguly's involment in cricket as a player and motivator . best wishes to g , m, e . thanks
Ganguly is the greatest ever captain & batsman of India. He scored more 10,000 runs if he not ruled out of the team he is scored more runs than sachin & stand in front of him. Bad luck of his that selectors bad behavior & zealousness take him away from the milestone. He make team to play only for win not for lost. he is the real king of cricket who played for country & give us pride & honor bcoz he give an attitude to win the match.
Re: Re: Ganguly The Great
by classical guy on Mar 14, 2011 10:30 PM
Well, I guess we should laugh back at you. Sachin playes for his records and also apart from that.. if you compare SG with ST, SG has both captaincy and batting..but the latter ..hmm.. only batting which would have been appreciated but for his selfishness.
Re: Re: Re: Ganguly The Great
by Deepak on Mar 15, 2011 12:42 AM
Make some sensible statements, We all know selfish ganguly became after 2005. Lets not give subjective comments like that. Lets look at stats as to who contributed to the team more
1. ODI: Ganguly had 14 match winning centuries and Sachin has 33 2.Test :Ganguly had 4 and Sachin has 20 match winning centuries 3.Sachin averages 33% more than Ganguly in Tests, nuff said. They dont even belong to the same level
ganguly was a great Indian batsman, but Sachin is the perfect batsman, he has no weakness against spin, pace, swing. Ganguly struggled against genuine pace bowlers
captaincy: Ganguly is the better captain no doubt, but he had Dravid, Sachin, Kumble under him. Sachin had a pathetic team. Sachin has done better than Ganguly in IPL captaincy
So please dont insult Ganguly by comparing him to the master. Even Ganguly wouldnt like that :)
Re: Re: Re: Ganguly The Great
by Deepak on Mar 15, 2011 12:43 AM
Make some sensible statements, We all know selfish ganguly became after 2005. Lets not give subjective comments like that. Lets look at stats as to who contributed to the team more
1. ODI: Ganguly had 14 match winning centuries and Sachin has 33 2.Test :Ganguly had 4 and Sachin has 20 match winning centuries 3.Sachin averages 33% more than Ganguly in Tests, nuff said. They dont even belong to the same level
ganguly was a great Indian batsman, but Sachin is the perfect batsman, he has no weakness against spin, pace, swing. Ganguly struggled against genuine pace bowlers
captaincy: Ganguly is the better captain no doubt, but he had Dravid, Sachin, Kumble under him. Sachin had a pathetic team. Sachin has done better than Ganguly in IPL captaincy
So please dont insult Ganguly by comparing him to the master. Even Ganguly wouldnt like that :)
Re: Re: Ganguly The Great
by Arshad Abbas on Mar 14, 2011 10:17 PM
hello bro, sachin is playing for his own benifts not for Ind, see his recordes, when he make 100 we lose the match,
Re: Re: Ganguly The Great
by classical guy on Mar 14, 2011 10:31 PM
Its ok.. no issues. One has the captaincy flair with the strike rate of 73.70 and the other has just an extra strike rate which obviously hasn't helped to be a match winner... ha hahaaa hahhaaa
Re: Re: Re: Ganguly The Great
by Dire Straits on Mar 15, 2011 12:20 AM
Former Australian opener Matthew Hayden has re-opened a seven-year-old controversy by claiming that ex-India captain Sourav Ganguly and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh chickened out of the series-deciding 2004 Nagpur Test due to a fear of the green-top pitch there.
In his autobiography 'Standing My Ground', Hayden writes that the Australians felt at that time the nature of the pitch had led to the sudden withdrawal of Ganguly and Harbhajan from the Test, which the visitors eventually won to clinch a historic series win.
"The curator, a famously single-minded character with no love of the Indian hierarchy, ignored pleas to shave the deck and left a healthy covering of grass. It reminded me of Gabba (In Brisbane). To have that sort of wicket for the deciding Test of an away series - particularly in India - was the most pleasant surprise imaginable," Hayden wrote.
"When Ganguly and Harbhajan went out to see the deck a couple of days before the game, they looked like farmers inspecting crops after a hail storm. We predicted neither would play, and they did not. Ganguly withdrew with a leg-muscle injury that flared up suddenly, and Harbhajan had an even more sudden dose of food poisoning. We put their ailments down to acute cases of 'greentrackitis', where you develop a severe intolerance to green wickets likely to give you nothing as a spin bowler and plenty of headaches as a batsman," wrote Hayden, who retired from internat
