Colourful

It is not black and white as several suspected. And I did too almost. It is not as if Ganguly is the clear-cut villain and Greg is the saint. This is what can be concluded from the inside stories of the Review Commitee Meeting. Clearly, both were in the wrong and both had some valid points. Only in such a situation, would a compromise be possible.

Here is what the Mumbai Mirror has to say on the issue. A detailed analysis on the points raised in it here on Prem's blog.

One of the most disturbing points about this whole issue is the leaks. First of all, the deadly email leak - alleged by Dungarpur, Pawar and others to be from the SG-JD camp, now this leak despite the gag-order. Again note, that whatever leaks have come out, it is all in support of SG which leads one to believe that there is indeed a deliberate attempt to seek sympathy by JD-SG. Which is why SG still remains an extremely shady character.

One particular piece the article mentions:

Ganguly told the committee that Chappell tried to undermine his authority right through the Zimbabwe series and even went out to toss with the opposing captain without Ganguly's knowledge during a warm-up game while the team was practising in the nets.

In his note, Ganguly called it a "huge humiliation for any captain". But, he wrote, he let the incident pass as a joke because he did not want to make a scene and create an "unhealthy dressing-room environment".

I'm not sure what are the rules about this and whether it is as serious an issue, but I feel SG would be rightly annoyed if that were the case.

The other parts are pretty irrelevant. It mentions that SG says that GC did in fact categorically ask him to step down unlike what GC said in his email. However, I do not see anything wrong in GC asking him to do that other than a sense of timing.

The incident in Mutare could have been a case of miscommunication as the Board President said in his press conference.

Consider this:

He vehemently fought the charge that he used a policy of "divide and rule". Ganguly stressed on how the Team India concept had emerged under his leadership and gave incidents of how he had backed players, even fought for them with the selectors on occasion. Secretary Karunakaran Nair, who sits in on selection meetings, backed Ganguly on this.

Mr. Ganguly, what about Nagpur then ? Don't be under the impression that we don't know what happened at Nagpur. Also, it cannot be ignored that you did not even feel like congratulating the team after winning the Test match in Mumbai. Why, even in the latest series win in Zimbabwe, you alone held the trophy aloft. You didn't feel it necessary to share it among the team that had won a series outside the subcontinent after 19 years !! The abscence of RD anywhere near the prize distribution has also not gone by unnoticed. Do you mean after all this we are expected to believe the team is one happy family ?

More on this to come ... You can start pouring in your thoughts.