Fortune favours Saurav

He is definitely one of the luckiest people. Earlier even though he was not performing but as India was winning the game, fingers pointing to him were not much. But then India started loosing matches and his performance being the same, people started pointing Ganguly for the failure. Actually he is not to be blamed for, when India won he hardly contributed as when India lost. So his presence in the team is very much indifferent to the outcome of the game.


Saurav's ban actually a boon

With two consecutive losses against Pakistan, Saurav’s job was at stake. And just at the right time ICC banned him for 6 matches. He couldn’t have asked for more. This is indeed a safe way to exit. When I heard yesterday about his ban I thought he is a lucky chap, ICC has done what our selectors were finding difficult to. And no wonder today’s headlines of Times says, “ICC bans Saurav, takes load off selectors back”.

The cricketing crowd goes so much as per statistics. Just because he is the most successful captain he is retained in the team. Whenever a match is scheduled, the statistics of the ground are shown, whether that ground is lucky for India or not, what is the winning ratio in that ground, winning ratio against the team, how lucky is the ground for an individual player, and what all scrap! It’s high time they realise that statistics neither predict the results nor they contribute to.

Now with 2 more games left against Pakistan, I feel it will be an even contest. It will be India XI Vs. Pakistan XI, earlier it was India X + Captain Vs. Pakistan XI. Thankfully there is no Steve Bucknor also; coz Sachin has just regained his form.

Hope to see Saurav back only if he is there to play cricket, not to demonstrate how to cook Maggie Noodles.