A Googly to Ganguly

Its sad that Ganguly is kicked out of the team when he performed well. Most of us were quite sure that Ganguly will be out of the team if he didn't perform well in the Delhi test. But as of now it's quite hard to swallow. Moreover selection of Wassim Jaffer(Opener) comes as a real surprise because the selectors have kept Gambhir in the team and Sehwag will definitely going to play the Ahmedabad Test. Where will Jaffer fit in? The answer lies in the letter I had sent months ago to the editorial column of most of the leading newspapers and magazines months before when the Ganguly-Chappell crisis started. Whether this letter was published is still unknown but it did predicted the outcome....

So read on....

"As of now everyone has been asked to speculate on the Ganguly-Chappell Crisis by various newschannels, newspapers and other medias. Taking this opportunity I would like to speculate the issue from a different angle. For me the whole crisis is somewhat fishy. I believe this is a
calculated game plan between Ganguly-Chappell-BCCI to play down the bad performances in the past months. I believe at the end of the "crisis" both Ganguly and Chappell will be there in the team at their respective positions. Maybe Ganguly might just compromise his captaincy in either ODI or Tests but he'll be definitely playing for another 2-3 years under the same coach. Both th coach and the captain have a common trait among them i.e they do not care about their image in public and will play all the wily tricks to either win a game or prove their point. At present they are in a situation where they find themselves together. Both of them need to prove their worth and it's definiely going to take some time. If they try too much, both of them are going to have a great fall so a "fight" in media means they have time in their hand as media will be more interested in what's happenning off ground than what's going to happen on ground. As the spice in the crisis lessesns two-three months would have gone and by the time, India might just be back into their winning habits that they left in South Africa in 2003. And also Tendulkar will be back by then. This defence mechanism may look like childish but their lies its
simplicity. Suppose bad performances continues, the media will talk more about the rift for the reasons behind the faiures and if good times are ahead then they will shower them (Ganguly & Chappell) with all the praises world around. If at all my speculation goes wrong (which never can be!) then we might see one of them packing the bag and who better than Ganguly (another speculation) as Captain always leads from the front".