Sourav Ganguly... The Die-hard Spirit

Wanted to write about him.. for long, but you know.. when you try too hard for something you are bound to struggle! I wanted to get equipped with all the stats n then sit n write smthing bout my Hero.. but that was not to be. Guess i'm better off writing things in an unstructured manner.. unless they happen to be related with my work or studies.. lol

Hmm so here I am.. the one who truly believed that Ganguly was the only and the only player who brought the real glory to Indian cricket (dunn wanna talk bout the '83 cup thing..). He was the only guy I ever saw.. giving it back to the aussies and the pakis.. both with the bat & with the mouth. He just was not scared of losing something.. of anything infact.. not even his wicket. I had never seen any Indian.. so bold on the field, I'm not even talking about the class of his batting.. which is incomparable in its own ways. I have not seen anyone hit those sixes... as easy as that!!

Now let us go through some headlines.. (yeah i'v some stuff ready..):

Ganguly and Chappel asked to patch up - Sep 27, 2005
Ganguly ignored for the next three one dayers - Oct 28, 2005
Amidst th by-lanes of Behala, someone awaits a return - Nov21, 2005
Ganguly Loses test captaincy to Dravid - Nov 22, 2005
Ganguly axed for the 3rd Test - December 14, 2006
Ganguly fails to find a place for the one-day series in Pak - Jan, 2006
Ganguly axed again - Feb 23,2006
Will the the prince charm us again? - April 3, 2006
Sehwag asked to plaster his mouth on Ganguly issue - May 09, 2006
Struggling Saurav gets one last chance against Pakistan - July 20, 2006
Ganguly drops an email bomb on Jagmohan dalmia - July 22, 2006
Sourav, Kumble Ignored for Champions Trophy - Sept 03, 2006

For more.. get 'em there:
http://www.cricketfundas.com/souravganguly.html

It isn't farewell time as yet for Saurav!!! - One of the best reads.. find it there:
http://www.cricketfundas.com/gangulyjune7.html

He is back finally.. & aggregating more than he ever did.. But more than anything else.. its his shear grit & determination which has made this 'come-back' story more interesting.. infact I would say its gonna be a legend of sorts, its 'text-book' stuff with the moral of the story sounding like -

" When the going gets tough, the tough gets goin".

Slow.. & Confused.. what's wrong with that?

Slow.. & Confused.. what's wrong with that?

I find that people often are very quick to grade others as 'slow in taking decisions' or 'confused'.. Well, what I interpret from that is.. people who don't easily make stupid mistakes - are called confused! I truly believe that life is surely not like flying an aeroplane or guiding a rocket into the sky.. so.. supersonic quick speed in taking decisions is definately not required. May be I myself am a slow (read as 'careful') decision maker.. thats why I am here trying to justify that kinda approach.. but I love my deliberated decision making approach.

Had I been chosen to drop a bomb on 'Hiroshima & Nagasaki' ..probably lot of destruction would have been avoided, thousands of people would have been saved.., and nobody would have been crippled for life.. Cus I know I would have been very slow.. I wud have thought 10.. 20.. 100 times.. n may just not have dropped the bladdy bomb... So why shouldn't I love myself for being confused.. being slow.. & for making deliberated decisions..??

I love myself.. love myself for being confused everytime I have to make a decision.. 'cus i'm confused for 'anybody' but not for myself.. I know what wanna do & dunn mind deliberating on it.. Most importantly.. those who really know you, and those who really care for you, those who are not trying to extract a favour out of you.. will never ask you to 'not be slow' in making decisions. My bestest buddies & my loving family has alwz given me time .. n whale of it.. to make my decisions..

So, for the rest of the world i'll alwz be 'painfully slow'... while for my bestest buddies, n my loving family i'll alwz be a caring person.. who does all sort of deliberations, thinks about everything.. n then makes a wise decision! ;D

Awwww.. thats been an awfully painful.. slow write-up.. i gotta end it here or else i'd start sounding like a bladdy preacher :-p lol...