Dada has been more of an enigma rather than just a plain old legend. There have been players who scored more runs than he did, more followed than he was, but none who was more criticized than he was, more neglected than he was or more determined than he was.
There are only 3 things i'l remember him for
1. The way he started his career
2. The way he rebuilt and strengthened INDIAN TEAM from rubbles as a Captain.
3. The way he fought back into the team, from which he was excluded for wrong reasons.
Just when the world was busy talking how sad his exit is going to be etched in our minds, which wud have remembered him as a Southpaw who started with a century @ lord's and ended with a first ball Duck; our man was given charge of the situation, to captain the team for the last time; exactly 8 yrs after the day he made his debut as the captain of India. A fitting send-off i'd say. If u think real hard u'd realize that he's not considered as a LEGEND for the runs he scored or for his fitness finesse he showed on field, But for the leadership skill in him that failed the master of the bat among other players with whom he is often compared with the amount of runs they have accumulated over years of their illustrious career.
Quoting my fnd who rightly said "when it comes to Ganguly people have only 2 opinions; either they are a Staunch die - hard fan of his, or they simply can't stand him" well I’d surely count me to be the first kind and cannot bear to think any other way abt him.
Dada u’ll truly be missed.
Regards,
Your “Die Hard” Fan
1. The way he started his career
2. The way he rebuilt and strengthened INDIAN TEAM from rubbles as a Captain.
3. The way he fought back into the team, from which he was excluded for wrong reasons.
Just when the world was busy talking how sad his exit is going to be etched in our minds, which wud have remembered him as a Southpaw who started with a century @ lord's and ended with a first ball Duck; our man was given charge of the situation, to captain the team for the last time; exactly 8 yrs after the day he made his debut as the captain of India. A fitting send-off i'd say. If u think real hard u'd realize that he's not considered as a LEGEND for the runs he scored or for his fitness finesse he showed on field, But for the leadership skill in him that failed the master of the bat among other players with whom he is often compared with the amount of runs they have accumulated over years of their illustrious career.
Quoting my fnd who rightly said "when it comes to Ganguly people have only 2 opinions; either they are a Staunch die - hard fan of his, or they simply can't stand him" well I’d surely count me to be the first kind and cannot bear to think any other way abt him.Dada u’ll truly be missed.
Regards,
Your “Die Hard” Fan
2 comments:
Oh good that u wrote it....
He truly deserves evry word u put in there n much more...
N i had to comment coz am a "Die Hard" fan of his too...
A True Leader.
Grandpa Ganguly finally retires. The day he announced his decision, man I was the happiest man on earth.
It's time up for the other grandpas: Tendulkar and Dravid.
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