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InDepth headlines national business sports cricket regional entertainment technology world travel autos health | in-depth coverage > India-Pakistan Series 2006 > 'Time to show Ganguly the door' 22.40 IST 20th Feb 2006 By Agencies 
As the uncertainty over Sourav Ganguly’s immediate cricketing future continues, former Indian captain Ajit Wadekar has said it was time to show the door to the ex-skipper. Wadekar, also a former coach and chief selector, said even if Ganguly was picked for the Test series against England, it would only be a stop-gap arrangement and the ex-skipper must realise that his days as an international cricketer were over. “There is no harm (in Ganguly being included in the side) but I suppose the time has come. The Aussies told Steve Waugh when it was time for him to step down,” he said in Mumbai. “Let us be frank. Let us face the fact. The team is winning without Sourav, the youngsters are doing well and it is time to tell Sourav ‘thank you very much. This is your last year', it should be like that’,” he said. Wadekar, who was chairman of selectors when both Ganguly and skipper Rahul Dravid made their Test debuts in England in 1996, said the team management was ‘forced’ to include Ganguly in the team for the Test series against Pakistan but the move to open the batting with Dravid to find space for the ex-skipper triggered the current crisis. “I think that was wrong. We had three specialist openers, and they were thinking of Sourav also as a opener, just to accommodate him,” he said. in-depth coverage > India-Pakistan Series 2006 > |
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