Lack Of Bowling

Sourav Ganguly has done himself great injustice by not bowling more often while he was the Team India captain. It has been proved time and again that he is more than a handy bowler, especially when it comes to the matter of breaking long partnerships. Instead of picking up a tiff with Andrew Flintoff, he should have used his stint with English county Lancashire to hone his bowling skills, as Jacques Kallis has done. Ganguly has never been a great runner between the wickets, neither was he ever the technically most equipped player of rising deliveries outside the off-stump. So it is natural that being on the wrong side of the thirties, he is finding it difficult to stand up to quality seam and swing bowling with élan. The Team India selectors’ decision to regard him as an all-rounder might have apparently been another scope to ridicule the Indian cricket administrators, but this should actually be a wake-up call for the Prince of Calcutta to bowl back with a vengeance. However, he has to get rid of his woes with the willow before anything else.