Ganguly bats launched on his birthday

The city of Calcutta will celebrate Saurav Ganguly's 28th birthday on Saturday in a very special way. His father will launch an exclusive set of cricket bats named after the Indian skipper, who is presently playing county cricket for Lancashire. Ganguly is the third Indian cricketer after whom bats will be named. Earlier Sunil Gavaskar had launched Sunny Tonny while MRF had honoured Sachin Tendulkar by launching a bat called `Genius'.

A sports goods manufacturer from Meerut has decided to come out with bats named after Ganguly. However, the company will release five categories of bats within the price range between Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000. The categories are Prince, Tiger, Six Hitter, King and Skipper. It is here that Ganguly has achieved an unique distinction in the fact that he will be the first Indian cricketer to have five separate classes of bats named after him. The product will be launched by Saurav's father Chandi Ganguly at a function on Saturday at the B. Dasgupta sports shop. Incidentally Ganguly picks up all his bats from this shop.

Ganguly, incidentally has not charged any endorsement fee from Sareen Sports Industries, who are the manufacturers of these bats, the reason for this being that he wants the bats to be available at affordable prices.