Was Sourav tricked into a trap by his tennis elbow?

0

Ever since Sourav Ganguly's leaked e-mail about Jagmohan Dalmiya has found wide circulation thanks to the classical crack in the sewage linings, all hell has broken loose. And the multimillion-dollar question that has naturally emerged out like a sea dragon with Davy Jones tentacles is; why and how has Dada suddenly discovered that his erstwhile mentor, ex-BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya may have actually callously toyed with him like the proverbial pawn in his embittered battle for winning BCCI elections. I think the answer lies in Sourav's "tennis elbow" injury post the controversial Zimbabwe tour. Let's do a quick flashback. If you remember, after that famous forced handshake and supposed truce between Greg Chappell and Sourav Ganguly at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, it seemed that the entire sorry spectacle and mud slinging was a thing of an inglorious past. A chapter best buried and forgotten. Then curiously....

Sorry Sachin, but Sanjay is right!

1

Just a few days ago I bumped against the affable, ever-smiling and ubiquitous Sanjay Manjrekar, who looked as if he could have been auditioning for a role in a TV serial. Looking like a cool dude in faded jeans and uncharacteristically long curls, the former cricketer was bursting with his trademark kinetic enthusiasm. As I read his column on Sachin Tendulkar the very next day, I had a sense of déjà vu. Here goes another eulogistic piece on the ageing maestro welcoming him back with the usual exaggerated lionizing that only we desperate Indians constantly on the look-out for superheroes can do with such remarkable finesse. I was therefore surprised to read a refreshingly candid piece, written with an insight that cannot be easily attributed to many former cricketers, who usually get their pieces written by fictitious ghostwriters possessing none of the enterprise of a certain Captain Jack Sparrow. ....