Thank God doors are closing to Ganguly

Ganguly is out.

Thank God. Ganguly is out of the team. Dravid is a soft leader. He should uproot guys like Ganguly. Play tight and give no room for any kind of gimmics. When you takeover leadership you should not leave any trace of old grains.

Ganguly is fortunate to be a most 'successful' test captain. There are two factors which helped Ganguly to achieve this 'record.

1. Extra ordinary individual performance: You know what Ganguly happened to be captain for 21 test wins. And in all these won matches Dravid averaged 106+. That means there is a century from Dravid in every win 'under' Ganguly.

Ganguly averaged a mere 27 worse to Laxman's 36, the later almost struggled for his
place in the team.

No need to mention the individual performace of Laxman (near 300 in Kolkata where Dada lost hopes and was holding his talisman), Shewags 300 in Multan, Bajji's continous 8 wicket hauls in B'lore and Kolkata (who is later named as Turbanator by Aussies). If you continue there is a list of endless 'extra ordinary' individual performances under which allowed to Ganguly to basking in victory luxory.

Dravid was a inspirational second always. He took the challenge to glove and stand behind the stumps for 48 ODIs so that Dada could accommodate a extra batsman (why not!! Dada never counted himself as a potential batsman... and by all means he need a extrabatsman). Mind you keeping in not an easy job to do. Thats why that is always considered different from batting and bowling.

2. Lady Luck: I bet our Indian captain believes in luck more than any village illeterate. His preparation would be nothing but wearing a new talisman before every series given by his mom, hold it through out the match and let the luck play.

Anybody remember the Natwest finals? We won under the heroics of Yuvi and Kaif. What Ganguly was doing in the dressing room (ofcourse asusual after his pathetic exit that he does monotonously in every match)? He was holding the Talisman and praying that these two guys play well. TV cameras clearly showed him holding those bunch of talismans under his shirt. Well... wonderful strategy by a leader!!! Members of the team perform better when you show confidence on them... not on those metals or threads that you wear, Idiot!!

Oh strategy and belief...??? when it comes to strategy and believing his team strength our captain was a true leader. Irrespective of the pitch conditions... Dada always preferred to bat first. He was very confident about his team, that they can never chase. He is happy declaring shamelessly that 'we have a bad record chasing thats why I choosed to bat first'. What a shame. Don't go with past. Change things!!! Show the way!! what is the meaning of being a leader? And strange thing is that under Ganguly captaincy we lost ELEVEN finals!!! Only final we won is while chasing !!!! (Natwest).

We were rated 8th in ODI and tests. Yes you are right... there are only 8 test playing countries and by the time Ganguly completed his 5 years of reign we were listed at number 8. Oooh right!! You are very right teams like Zimbambwe, Bangladesh and West Indies which at their worst are also test playing nations! But we are even worse to them at one stage.

Thats the end of todays thought ramblings :)