It's tough to keep Dada out
Espnstar.com’s Rajarshi Gupta reckons it would not be a bad bet to have Sourav Ganguly as BCCI chief.
So it seems Sourav Ganguly is on another comeback trail. Yes, this one might well be some time away but if it does happen, then the former India captain will head an establishment that cornered him, brought him back to prominence and then scorched him again.Dada as BCCI president? Not a very distant thought it would seem. An Indian newspaper reported that Ganguly, who made his Test debut against England more than a decade ago and announced his return to the main fold with a bang will contest for the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2014.
Cricket in India reached new peaks when the Prince of Kolkata (as former England opener Geoffery Boycott once famously coined and has since become such a cliché to describe the Royal Bengal Tiger- another cliché) took over the reins of captaincy from Sachin Tendulkar in 2000.
The game had hit staggering lows in the country. The match-fixing scandal had pierced a deep hole in every heart and the team looked incapable of winning and surviving with dignity. And that was when it all changed.
Ganguly led India to an ODI series win against the visiting South Africans soon after taking over. He taught the team to win and play with a certain dignity and self-assurance.
However, the honey-moon period came to a stand-still and his fortunes plummeted to an all time-low when a certain Greg Chappell came in as coach and decided he had had enough of Ganguly. Banished from captaincy and the team, the nation watched with abated breath as Dada made a stunning come back after a year to claim his place under the sun.
He retired with grace and aplomb. His last Test series against Australia was significant for more reasons than one. That turned out to be his most successful outing against the World Champions, churning out fifties, a hundred and a duck in the last innings.
The most successful Indian captain of all times is ready to roar again albeit some tine in the distance.
Indian cricket can only gain with someone like him at the helm and who knows? Ganguly's professionalism can rub off on the BCCI. One cannot stop wondering, the more we see of the man the more refreshing it gets. The show is about to start, all over again.
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