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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Goodbye Ganguly?

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His week could see the end of an unforgettable era, with Sourav Ganguly “set to quit” international cricket if not selected for the Australia series. The team for the first two tests will be chosen on Wednesday.

If Ganguly, 112 short of 7,000 Test runs, does retire, he would be the first of India's ‘Fab Five’ — the others being Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman — to call it a day, bringing to a close what has been Indian cricket’s most dramatic chapter.

Sources close to the former India skipper told HT Ganguly’s mind was made up. “He said there is no point in trying to make yet another comeback after this,” said the source. “He has nothing to prove to anyone anymore.” Ganguly, who had not spoken to (or been spoken to) by any selector in the recent fortnight since his axing from the Irani Cup squad, was philosophical.

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Friday, August 8, 2008

Delhi boy is surprise face in squad

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Leading India to victory in the under 19 World Cup has worked well for Delhi's 19-year-old all rounder Virat Kohli.

Not many expected the middle order batsman to make the senior grade so soon.

But that is the talent he has and the confidence the selectors have in him. Earlier the National Cricket Academy selected him to train in Brisbane for six weeks for the Gavaskar-Border Scholarship.

Kohli was expected to play a vital role in the Bangalore team's IPL campaign. In his teens, he was pitchforked to limited overs for his stroke play. But he could not translate the expectations into on-field performances. "I was over-ambitious and that was why I did not succeed," Kohli admitted to Hindustan Times on Thursday IPL skipper Rahul Dravid had already anointed him as a bright prospect. "You have got to be patient with Virat. He has got lots of talent and hits the ball cleanly," Dravid had said then.

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Friday, May 16, 2008

At a tough time, we expect support and backing

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Over this past week, there have been lots of things happening and it's not been a particularly happy time. While I totally understand that everyone's upset about the results (of the Bangalore team in the IPL) so far, as players and professional cricketers, we are all very upset too.

What's important though, is that at this time, you need all the support and backing you can get. You need the people around you, the people who matter, to understand what sport is all about, to realise that no one goes out there to lose.

What's unfortunate is that, invariably, every one starts pointing fingers at the captain. So it stands all the more to reason that people within the camp then stand up and say ‘we believe in you and your team'. That's what's most important in this kind of situation.

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