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Mid-day Report
New Delhi: It was a homecoming Sourav Ganguly would want to erase from memoryreal quick. Dropped by the selectors for the third Test in Ahmedabad, SouravGanguly left New Delhi with a heavy heart. But in his hour of crisis, he was notalone. Wife Dona and daughter Sana, who had come to keep him company in Delhiwere by his side as he boarded the 19.55 flight from the capital. Sana and Donawere to accompany him to Ahmedabad too but Kiran More & Co crushed their plans.Normally, Ganguly moves around in the aircraft and talks to people on flight.But yesterday stuck to his seat. He appeared dismayed and shattered. The formerIndia skipper refrained from speaking to the media. He did not utter a word buthis silence spoke volumes of his dejection. India's most successful captain hadyet another taste of life's down side.A report in telegraphNew Delhi: The Sourav Ganguly-Yuvraj Singh story proved to be a classic tale ofirony on Wednesday when one player had to keep his place in the team at theexpense of other, who was his saviour not many days ago. Sourav - after havingbeen stripped of captaincy and a place in the ODI squad - was in a 'battle' withYuvraj for the middle-order slot in Tests. But the selectors decided to favourthe latter because of the age factor. When The Telegraph caught Yuvraj at thetime of his checking out of the team hotel - following a thumping 188-run winover Sri Lanka at the Kotla - he said the former captain's exclusion was a "sad"incident. ''Yes, it is sad. He is a senior player and a former captain. But Ican't say more than this, please," the Punjab batsman, who will play at No. 6batsman in the third Test, said. Sachin Tendulkar, however, was in no mood toentertain any query on Sourav's sudden omission from the squad. "We have won aTest match and it's a hugely satisfying moment... let's concentrate on it," hesaid, before leaving for Mumbai.