SCOOP !! Mystery Phone call to RD/GC. 'Include SG' Decree

Mumbai Mirror dropped a bomb, when they came out with this article in the Thursday paper.
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/nmirror/mmpaper.asp?sectid=6§name=Sports&sess=143414491

Two significant quotes from this article :
A source close to the team said that there was pressure being applied from some quarters to include Sourav Ganguly in the playing XI for the first test that begins at the Gaddaffi Stadium on Friday.

But one story doing the rounds is that a call was made from India telling the captain and the coach that Ganguly must be included, come what may. We couldn’t either get that confirmed or denied.

Although the article is written in conjecture, it is significant to note that Rahul Dravid spent the whole day with a glum look. That by itself is no news but the day happens to be his 33^rd b’day and rumor mills are working overtime to attribute things to the above said phone call.

I hope that this is just plain rumor and will meet its natural death but otherwise this will cause a wedge (nothing new; well anticipated in advance, the moment SG was inserted somehow in the 16) and polarize the side. In the mean while, the pro and anti SG factions are continuing their duel, as if the next nuclear war is reported.

The worst part in the above article is the Pak captain Inzi shooting arrows. Hardly, 6 months ago – the entire Pak team was on each other’s throat (in 2004 tour, remember the medical investigation of Shoaib to find whether he faked an injury). Well ! victories can weld a lot of faults and gloss division.

Personally, I have become sick of the whole thing. SG does not merit a selection into the XI on cricketing basis IMHO. Let the game begin and the let India come out on top; everything else is secondary and I really don’t care what happens to SG, one way or other.