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Ganguly to return next week

Sourav Ganguly will cut short his stint with Glamorgan in the English County Championship and return to India next week

Cricinfo staff
03-Jul-2005


Ganguly's time at Glamorgan has been a mixed bag © Getty Images
Sourav Ganguly will cut short his stint with Glamorgan in the English County Championship and return to India next week after Greg Chappell, the new national coach, asked for him to be present at a conditioning camp for the players ahead of the new season. As things stand, Ganguly would miss India's first assignment, a one-day tournament in Sri Lanka, as he still has to sit out four matches of a six-game suspension, but with the Indian board lobbying the ICC to lift the ban, he could yet be on the short flight across the Palk Straits.
Ganguly scored one brilliant hundred for Glamorgan and has also worked on his bowling, without setting the county scene alight. Glamorgan officials are expected to allow him to return on July 12, though he may fly back to represent the Welsh side in a four-day game that starts on July 21.
Chappell is currently overseeing India's crop of fast bowlers at a camp in Bangalore, and has apparently insisted on Ganguly being present for the first team get-together of the season.