As for us fans, we shall always have fond memories of your sublime off-side glides, your towering sixes, your pedestrian running-between-the-wickets, your embarrassing fielding, your never-say-die attitude, your totally unparochial approach to man-management and your bare torso on the Lords balcony as you waved your shirt over your head like a helicopter showing the world that we Indians, from now on, shall give as good as we receive.
A Little Wit. A Little Wisdom. Lots of India.
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golmaal
Mar 9th, 2006 at 9:58 pm | #
As you put it Arnab, this has happened to Sourav and could happen to somebody else in the future. I just pray that the legends like Kumble and Tendulkar don’t have to go through the same kind of hell and are allowed more graceful exit. The best example can be Steve Waugh’s exit from the game. He was not in a very different situation from Sourav, but the ACB had courtesy to give him his due (and rightly so). He was told that this is his end and the team needs to move on. Thats how Sourav should have been handled and every other cricketer who has played for India be handled. If Ganguly then chooses to go against the board then ‘let the battle begin’…..
I feel this situation comes up because of the petty board politics no matter how many other faces (read Chappell) that the media throws. I sincerely hope we have somebody like Sourav in the place of Powar and Dalmiya some day.
That would be the biggest lesson we can learn from this epic.