Such Treachery

So, Ganguly along with some other senior players goes unsold and predictably the net goes buzzing about this “deliberate humiliation” by the Knight Riders’ management. I guess it makes sense. After all he is Kolkata’s “favorite son”. It hardly matters that under his captaincy KK was known more about its controversies than its performance. It hardly matters that he is now a reality show host which I guess is nowhere close to cricket. It hardly matters that he is 38 and has retired from all forms of international cricket for a while now. It hardly matters that he himself doubled his base price which his good friends in Sahara also were not ready to pay for their Pune team. KK has been consistently one of the lowest ranked team in all editions of IPL, but that too hardly matters. Dada should have been there.

I am sure the high standard of his performance a decade ago should have provided him a berth and a skyrocketing salary in the KK team in this IPL too. I mean isn’t he the greatest captain of all time. Actually the govt. should force the KK management, which is a private entity, to fulfill everyone’s whims. Isn’t that’s what the “capitalist class” in such regime supposed to do. After all, isn’t “dadagiri” the catch word here?

Let’s not forget the auction itself which is being telecasted over national television. Such is the audacity of team managements that they actually pay for players who actually perform. I mean, how could they judge a player by their past performance in IPL? What treacherous world we live in! Let’s all call for another strike and scream, “Cholbe na, cholbe na” rallying on the road.

Let this “dada” hangover stay for few more years. The greater priority of moving on and create younger, world class player from the state can wait for now.