Will Ganguly Play in the Next World Cup?
Almost every Indian knows who Ganguly is. He is also one the greatest Indian Cricket Players. Ganguly is a left-handed batsman and a right-handed medium-pace bowler. Ganguly is naturally right-handed, but became a left-handed batsman at a young age so that he could use his brother, Snehasish’s equipment.
Ganguly has been nicknamed Bengal Tiger, Prince of Calcutta, and Lord Snooty by his opponents, and affectionately Dada (which means elder brother in Bengali) by his team-mates. Ganguly went on to become the captain of the Indian cricket team from 2000 to 2005. He led India to the 2003 World Cup finals, and holds the Indian captaincy record for the most Test victories.
Following an exit from the national team in early 2006, Ganguly was recalled to the Indian test side in December, staging a successful comeback in the 2006 – 2007 Indian tour of South Africa. Ganguly made his One-Day International debut for India against Australia in 1992. He didn’t score much and was dropped from further matches. Four years later, following a good domestic record, he was recalled into the national side for a Test series in England. He made his Test debut at Lord’s, scoring a century he became only the third cricketer to score a century on debut at Lord’s, after Harry Graham and John Hampshire. (Andrew Strauss has also since accomplished this feat). With a century in that match and repeated the feat in the match which followed. He was retained for the One day team and he went on become a regular in both forms of the game.
In January 1998, he had one of his most memorable performances in the final of the Independence Cup at Dhaka against Pakistan he scored 124 as India successfully chased down 315 off 48 overs, winning the Man of the match award.
Now, Will he play in the Indian Team in the 2011 World Cup? I hope not. Because even though he has been playing well recently, he is full of inconsistency and he is old as Sachin. Its time for India to try younger players and give opportunities to the newer ones. The older players like Ganguly, Tendulkar have played well but they are now showing weaker performances which may be the sign of their incapabiltities. So, If I’m to give my opinion, I’ll definitely choose the younger players of India.
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