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Everyone following cricket will know the combat between Greg chappell and our Dada (Sourav Ganguly).  His dispute with then-coach Greg Chappell resulted in many headlines during 2005 and early 2006. Greg Chappell emailed the BCCI stating that Ganguly was unfit to lead India and that his “divide and rule” behaviour was damaging the team. This email was leaked to the media and resulted in huge backlash from Ganguly’s fans. Eventually due to his poor form and differences with the coach he was stripped of his captaincy and dropped from the team. However, 10 months later, during India’s tour to South Africa, Ganguly was recalled after his middle order replacements Suresh Raina and Mohammad Kaif suffered poor form.

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Awesome Player he is. DADA is DADA. He has been not very fluent after his comeback. He struggles with his timing. His scoring rates is slow and yet what matters the most is the anchor role he has been doing for quite a time now. Even today he was way from his best yet he partnered the opening stand with Sachin (134 runs).

Today(29-07-2007) was the 17th time that this pair has scored a century partnership opening the batting. It is a one more record. Sachin & Ganguly the best opening pair of all times. Read the rest of this entry »

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