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It is all over bar the wailing and yet they continue to lay the blame squarely on the doormat of umpire Hariharan for Bangladesh's defeat. They say, "Murali 2 wickets, Hariharan 3!"
All one can say is, look, an umpire with any other name than Hariharan would have made the same mistakes and done Bangladesh in. It was in the stars, it was fate. You cannot buck those. Besides, many Bangladesh batsmen were victims of their own inadequate technique. Ask Whatmore. He may crib about faulty umpiring that went against us but he will not go out of his way to defend the way many of our batsmen got out.
Meanwhile, former Indian cricket captain Saurav Ganguly says he will make a comeback into Test so help him heaven. He says people can get dropped but they also get picked again, like Wasim Jaffar (although he didn't name names) that it was not as if he had been executed by a firing squad.
In fact, four gentlemen - Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid - have been asked to report within a month on the allegations that selectors chose people of their own liking and regions. Many think Gavaskar is the only one that Ganguly can count on to support his point of view. That's 3-2 against Ganguly and Gavaskar is what people think will happen.
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