Of Character Of Men

Ganguly has gone on record commenting on the 'character' of GC. Apparently he said something to the effect that you can judge the character of a man who within hours of a truce goes and does something like this.

The fool (and I am not going to think twice about using derogatory words here on) should realize how his character is being reflected through statements like these. What 'truce' is he talking about ? Does he think this is a family matter or a Bengali soap opera (one of which he might soon be producing) that there can be things like 'truces' and being all hunky-dory again ? This is professional cricket for God's sake and the person in-charge has to give his honest feedback.

In any case, it is now being apparent that the email was sent before the 'truce' happened and it was leaked yesterday evidently by someone who was sypathetic towards SG and malicious towards GC. This has to be someone from the JD camp in the board. I can't help feeling that SG is appearing to play a victim here but in reality it is GC who is being targetted.

I have also heard rumors that he is planning to quit. I hope that is not true. I hope he stays on and fights the system. Because we need him to. Someone has to cleanse this dirty system and to do that one has to be in it.

Talking of characters once again the sterling character of Rahul Dravid has stood out in all this saga. He never once uttered a word, never tried to take advantage of the situation and has always played every issue on its merit with a straight bat. Prem Panicker here is pretty close to what happens in Indian cricket and knows what happens at close quarters. He says so about RD in as many words here. And here is Outlook's take on the issue.