IPL 4 : Sourav Ganguly joins Pune Warriors

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday made a dramatic return to the IPL 4 by signing up for struggling franchise Pune Warriors as replacement for injured pacer Ashish Nehra.

“We were waiting for Ashish Nehra’s fitness report. The report came yesterday and we finalised Ganguly last night,” Pune Warriors Team director Abhijit Sarkar said.

The Warriors have lost six matches on the trot after winning their first two games and now face a must-win situation in their remaining fixtures starting with the seemingly unstoppable Mumbai Indians, who had defeated them by seven wickets in a low-scoring game at the Wankhede Stadium on April 20.

Ganguly, who played for Kolkata Knight Riders for three IPL seasons captaining them in two editions, went unsold in the January players’ auction despite a rather modest base price of $400,000.

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Sourav Ganguly included in BCCI Technical Committee

Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly was on Thursday included as a member of the Cricket Board's Technical Committee headed by Sunil Gavaskar at the BCCI's 80th AGM in Mumbai.

The panel also includes former Test umpire V K Ramaswamy and ex-India opener Krishnamachari Srikkanth who was retained as the head of the senior selection committee for the 2009-10 season.

The following are the various committees for 2009-10 season.

Working Committee: Shashank Manohar (President), N Srinivasan (Secretary), Sanjay Jagdale (Jt. secretary), M P Pandove (Treasurer), Arun Jaitley (North), Shivlal Yadav (South), Arindam Ganguly (East), Chirayu Amin (West) and Lalit Modi (Central) (all vice presidents).

Delhi, Tamil Nadu Bengal, Mumbai, UP (all permanent Test centres), Karnataka, Punjab, Gujarat, Vidarbha (who have staged Tests), HP (North), Hyderabad (South), Jharkhand (East), Cricket Club of India (West) and Rajasthan (Central).

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BCCI should have checked the interviews tapes: Sourav

A few days after Vinod Kambli blamed the Indian board in a reality show for discriminating against him over his skin colour (though he later denied it), former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly too accused the board of adopting double standards over team selection (Sourav also denied it).
The former Indian skipper said that the BCCI should have checked the interviews tapes with the Bengali news channel before reacting so sharply.
Ganguly had sarcastically hinted at being a victim of BCCI’s discrimination in an interview to a Bengali channel.
Ganguly had reportedly criticised the BCCI for having "different rules for different players" in selection matters.
Meanwhile, the former captain also sidestepped questions on whether he had been re-appointed captain of his Indian Premier League team Kolkata Knight Riders.
The left-hander had been replaced by New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum this season.

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