hi frens..
      do read this letter if full and u will be ashamed of saurav ganguly's
deeds. With due respects to wat he has done till now,but this is really a
crappy stuff by him....
njoy,

Damn! What a shame! .. Sourav is an
indisciplined, narrow-minded,dispassioned,
manipulating, demagogue .. What a betrayal?.. With all
due  respect to him forging a TEAM-India some time ago,
this goes really deep into undoing all that he has
built up...Time to pack your bags, Sourav!


 Here's Greg Chappell's email to the BCCI chief
 Sunday, September 25, 2005 02:01 IST



 Full text of Indian cricket team coach Greg
 Chappell's email, in collaboration with India TV

 Due to comments made by Mr Sourav Ganguly during the
 press conference following his innings in the
 recently completed Test match in Bulawayo and the
 subsequent media speculation I would like to make my
 position clear on two points.

 1. At no stage did I ask Mr Ganguly to step down
 from the captaincy of the Indian team and;

 2. At no stage have I threatened to resign my
 position as Indian team  coach.

 Mr Ganguly came to me following the recently
 completed tri-series of one-day matches here in
 Zimbabwe and asked me to tell him honestly where he
 stood as a player in my view. I told him that I
 thought he was struggling as a player and that it
 was affecting his ability to lead the team
 effectively and that the pressure of captaincy was
 affecting his ability to play to his potential. I
 also told him that his state of mind was fragile and
 it showed in the way that he made decisions on and
 off the field in relation to the team, especially
 team selection. A number of times during the
 tri-series the tour selectors had chosen a team and
 announced it to the group only for Sourav to change
 his mind on the morning of the game and want to
 change the  team.

 On at least one occasion he did change the team and
 on the morning of the final I had to talk him out of
 making another last-minute change that I believe
 would have destroyed team morale and damaged the
 mental state of the individuals concerned. I also
 told Sourav that his nervous state was affecting the
 team in other ways as he was prone to panic during
 pressure situations in games and that his nervous
 demeanour was putting undue pressure on the rest of
 the team. His nervous pacing of the rooms during our
 batting in the final plus his desire to change the
 batting order during our innings in the final had
 also contributed to nervousness in the players
 waiting to go in to bat. His reluctance to bat first
 in games I suggested was also giving wrong  signals
 to the team and the opposition and his nervousness
 at the crease facing bowlers like Shane Bond from NZ
 was also affecting morale in the dressing room.

 On the basis of this and other observations and
 comments from players in the squad about the
 unsettling effect Sourav was having on the group I
 suggested to Sourav that he should consider stepping
 down from the captaincy at the end of the tour in
 the interests of the team and in his own best
 interests if he wanted to prolong his playing
 career. I told him of my own experiences toward the
 end of my career and cited other players such as
 Border, Taylor and Steve Waugh, all of whom
 struggled with batting form toward the end of their
 tenure as Australian captain.

 We discussed other issues in  relation to captaincy
 and the time and effort it took that was eating into
 his mental reserves and making it difficult to
 prepare properly for batting in games. He commented
 that he had enjoyed being free of those
 responsibilities in the time that he was in Sri
 Lanka following his ban from international cricket
 and that he would consider my suggestion.

 I also raised the matter of selection for the first
 Test with Sourav and asked him where he thought he
 should bat. He said 'number 5'. I told him that he
 might like to consider opening in the Test as the
 middle order was going to be a tight battle with
 Kaif and Yuvraj demanding selection. Sourav asked me
 if I was serious. I said it was something to be
 considered, but it had to be his decision.

 The  following day Sourav batted in the match against
 Zimbabwe 'A' team in the game in Mutare. I am not
 sure of the exact timing of events because I was in
 the nets with other players when Sourav went in to
 bat, but the new ball had either just been taken or
 was imminent when I saw Sourav walking from the
 field holding his right arm. I assumed he had been
 hit and made my way to the players' area where
 Sourav was receiving treatment from the team
 physiotherapist, John Gloster.

 When I enquired as to what had happened Sourav said
 he had felt a click in his elbow as he played a ball
 through the leg side and that he thought he should
 have it investigated. Sourav had complained of pain
 to his elbow at various stages of the one-day
 series, but he had resisted having any  comprehensive
 investigation done and, from my observation, had
 been spasmodic in his treatment habits, often not
 using ice-packs for the arm that had been prepared
 for him by John Gloster. I suggested, as had John
 Gloster, that we get some further tests done
 immediately. Sourav rejected these suggestions and
 said he would be 'fine'. When I queried what he
 meant by 'fine' he said he would be fit for the Test
 match. I then queried why then was it necessary to
 be off the field now. He said that he was just
 taking 'precautions'.

 Rather than make a scene with other players and
 officials in the vicinity I decided to leave the
 matter and observe what Sourav would do from that
 point on. After the loss of Kaif, Yuvraj and Karthik
 to the new ball, Sourav returned  to the crease with
 the ball now around 20 overs old. He struggled for
 runs against a modest attack and eventually threw
 his wicket away trying to hit one of the spinners
 over the leg side.

 The next day I enquired with a number of the players
 as to what they had thought of Sourav's retirement.
 The universal response was that it was 'just Sourav'
 as they recounted a list of times when Sourav had
 suffered from mystery injuries that usually
 disappeared as quickly as they had come. This
 disturbed me because it confirmed for me that he was
 in a fragile state of mind and it was affecting the
 mental state of other members of the squad.

 When we arrived in Bulawayo I decided I needed to
 ask Sourav if he had over-played the injury to avoid
 the danger period  of the new ball as it had appeared
 to me and others within the touring party that he
 had protected himself at the expense of others. He
 denied the suggestion and asked why he would do that
 against such a modest attack. I said that he was the
 only one who could answer that question.

 I was so concerned about the affect that Sourav's
 actions were having on the team that I decided I
 could not wait until selection meeting that evening
 to inform him that I had serious doubts about
 picking him for the first Test.

 I explained that, in my view, I felt we had to pick
 Kaif and Yuvraj following their good form in the
 one-day series and that Sehwag, Gambhir, Laxman and
 Dravid had to play. He said that his record was
 better than Kaif and Yuvraj and that they had  not
 proved themselves in Test cricket. I countered with
 the argument that they had to be given a chance to
 prove themselves on a consistent basis or we would
 never know. I also said that their form demanded
 that they be selected now.

 Sourav asked me whether I thought he should be
 captain of the team. I said that I had serious
 doubts that he was in the right frame of mind to do
 it. He asked me if I thought he should step down. I
 said that it was not my decision to make, that only
 he could make that decision, but if he did make that
 decision he had to do it in the right manner or it
 would have even more detrimental effects than if he
 didn't stand down. I said that now was not the time
 to make the decision but that we should discuss it
 at the selection  meeting to be held later in the
 day.

 Sourav then said that if I didn't want him to be
 captain that he would inform Rahul Dravid that was
 going to stand down. I reiterated that it was not my
 decision to make but he should give it due
 consideration under the circumstances but not to do
 it hastily. At that point Sourav went to Rahul and
 the two of them conferred briefly and then Sourav
 left the field and entered the dressing room. At
 that stage I joined the start of the training
 session.

 A short time later Mr Chowdhary came on to the field
 and informed me that Sourav had told him that I did
 not want him as captain and that Sourav wanted to
 leave Zimbabwe immediately if he wasn't playing. I
 then joined Mr Chowdhary and Rahul Dravid in the
  dressing room where we agreed that this was not the
 outcome that any of us wanted and that the
 ramifications would not be in the best interests of
 the team.

 We then spent some time with Sourav and eventually
 convinced him that he should stay on as captain for
 the two Tests and then consider his future. In my
 view it was not an ideal solution but it was better
 than the alternative of him leaving on a bad note. I
 believe he has earned the right to leave in a
 fitting manner. We all agreed that this was a matter
 that should stay between us and should not, under
 any circumstances, be discussed with the media.

 The matter remained quiet until the press conference
 after the game when a journalist asked Sourav if he
 had been asked to step down before the Test.  Sourav
 replied that he had but he did not want to elaborate
 and make an issue of it. I was then called to the
 press conference where I was asked if I knew
 anything of Sourav being asked to step down before
 the game. I replied that a number of issues had been
 raised regarding selection but as they were
 selection matters I did not wish to make any further
 comment.

 Apart from a brief interview on ESPN before which I
 emphasized that I did not wish to discuss the issue
 because it was a selection matter I have resisted
 all other media approaches on the matter.

 Since then various reports have surfaced that I had
 threatened to resign. I do not know where that
 rumour has come from because I have spoken to no one
 in regard to this because I have no  intention of
 resigning. I assume that some sections of the media,
 being starved of information, have made up their own
 stories.

 At the completion of the Test match I was approached
 by VVS Laxman with a complaint that Sourav had
 approached him on the eve of the Test saying that I
 had told Sourav that I did not want Laxman in the
 team for Test matches. I denied that I had made such
 a remark to Sourav, or anybody else for that matter,
 as, on the contrary, I saw Laxman as an integral
 part of the team. He asked how Sourav could have
 said what he did. I said that the only way we could
 go to the bottom of the matter was to speak to
 Sourav and have him repeat the allegation in front
 of me.

 I arranged for a meeting with the two of them that
  afternoon. The meeting took place just after 6pm in
 my room at the Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo. I told
 Sourav that Laxman had come to me complaining that
 Sourav had made some comments to Laxman prior to the
 Test. I asked Sourav if he would care to repeat the
 comment in my presence. Sourav then rambled on about
 how I had told him that I did not see a place for
 Laxman in one-day cricket, something that I had
 discussed with Sourav and the selection panel and
 about which I had spoken to Laxman at the end of the
 Sri Lankan tour.

 Sourav mentioned nothing about the alleged
 conversation regarding Laxman and Test cricket even
 when I pushed him on it later in the discussion. As
 we had to leave for a team function we ended the
 conversation without Sourav adequately  explaining
 his comments to Laxman.

 Again, this is not an isolated incident because I
 have had other players come to me regarding comments
 that Sourav had made to them that purports to be
 comments from me to Sourav about the particular
 player. In each case the comments that Sourav has
 passed on to the individual are figments of Sourav's
 imagination. One can only assume that he does it to
 unnerve the individual who, in each case, has been a
 middle order batsman.

 Sourav has missed the point of my discussions with
 him on this matter. It has less to do with his form
 than it does with his attitude toward the team.
 Everything he does is designed to maximise his
 chance of success and is usually detrimental to
 someone else's chances.

  Despite meeting with him in Mumbai after his
 appointment as captain and speaking with him about
 these matters and his reluctance to do the
 preparation and training that is expected of
 everyone else in the squad he continues to set a bad
 example.

 Greg King's training reports continue to show Sourav
 as the person who does the least fitness and
 training work based on the criterion that has been
 developed by the support staff to monitor the work
 load of all the players.

 We have also developed parameters of batting,
 bowling, fielding and captaincy that we believe
 embodies the 'Commitment to Excellence' theme that I
 espoused at my interview and Sourav falls well below
 the acceptable level in all areas. I will be pleased
 to present this documentation  when I meet with the
 special committee in Mumbai later this month.

 I can assure you sir that all my actions in this
 matter, and all others since my appointment, have
 been with the aim of improving the team performance
 toward developing a team that will represent India
 with distinctions in Test match and one-day cricket.

 As I said to you during our meeting in Colombo, I
 have serious reservations about the attitude of some
 players and about Sourav and his ability to take
 this team to a new high, and none of the things he
 has done since his reappointment has caused me to
 change my view. In fact, it has only served to
 confirm that it is time for him to move on and let
 someone else build their team toward the 2007 World
 Cup.

 This team has been  made to be fearful and
 distrusting by the rumour mongering and deceit that
 is Sourav's modus operandi of divide and rule.
 Certain players have been treated with favour, all
 of them bowlers, while others have been shunted up
 and down the order or left out of the team to suit
 Sourav's whims.

 John Wright obviously allowed this to go on to the
 detriment of the team. I am not prepared to sit back
 and allow this to continue or we will get the same
 results we have been seeing for some time now.

 It is time that all players were treated with
 fairness and equity and that good behaviours and
 attitudes are rewarded at the selection table rather
 than punished.

 I can assure you of my very best intentions.

 Yours sincerely,

 Greg  Chappell MBE