November , 2008
GOODBYE GANGULY
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Because when you announced your retirement, you said "Hopefully we will end up on a winning note". We did. Because you were the only guy referred to as the royal Prince and the high-street bully "Dada" at the same time. Because when you scored that classic debut century at Lord's, some thought you will be a one-knock wonder. At Trent Bridge, you stunned them all again with a double barrel. Because when you played those heavenly cover drives, Rahul Dravid said, "There is only God and then Sourav Ganguly on the off-side". Maybe even the Almighty would have just moved to mid-on. Because you took over as captain when match-fixing clouds hung over, but you made the right bets for the team. Because with Sachin Tendulkar, you made ODI opening a treat for Indians, and a nightmare for the opposition. It was left right, left....
More about Sanjay Jha
When Jha left his cushy banking job to start a cricket portal, he knew he was taking a mighty huge risk. It was apparently worth the adventure. On March 1st 2010 CricketNext.com celebrated its tenth year, a superlative feat for a dot com company born in the year the internet bubble burst. CricketNext.com is now part of the media group, Network 18. Jha has worked with several foreign financial institutions and is a post-graduate in economics and an MBA from XLRI , Jamshedpur. Currently, he is also Executive Director of world-famous Dale Carnegie Training, and specializes in leadership development and executive coaching. Besides his hard-hitting weekly columns, Jha has authored two cricket quiz books and also a book of poetry. His latest cricket creation was published in May 2010 and is titled Eleven: Triumphs, Trials and Turbulence ; Indian Cricket 2003-10.
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