My Dear Sourav ...

The blog Smoke Signals runs an open letter to Sourav Ganguly. It starts off by addressing Ganguly's denying comments attributed to him in a Bengali daily (which deal with his omission from the Indian team and the inclusion of several team-mates) and ends wondering if he is upset because Mahendra Singh Dhoni's record as captain is better than his was at this stage of their respective careers.

This adage, that ‘everything is possible in Indian cricket’ was a sad truism until you took over. I thought you would take pride in having changed that, in having forged a team, and brought some consistency to team selection and planning. To hear you use that truism is particularly disheartening.

A lot of players have come and disappeared in Indian cricket, often times when they shouldn’t have. The fact that you weren’t one of them doesn’t mean that the problem does not exist. All because the player who replaced you is now not in the national team and is in the ICL, doesn’t say anything about your situation.