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I didn’t make those comments: Ganguly

Sourav Ganguly has denied comments attributed to him in a Bengali daily. While several Bengali papers have carried interviews with Ganguly, some controversial comments attributed to him in the Kolkata daily Aajkal deal with his omission from the Indian team and the inclusion of several team-mates.

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“The reports of an interview from a Bengali daily published in other newspapers are false,” Ganguly’s statement, read out in the press box by an Indian team official, said. “I have not given such an interview to anyone. I request you to clarify with me before publishing views from other sources.”

“I have played badly in only one series (in Sri Lanka),” the Aajkal interview said. “Yet every Tom, Dick and Harry is playing in the team. There are players who haven’t scored in the last three series for India, even for the last one year. There are some who have changed their hairstyle more than they have scored for India.”

His comments have received sharp criticism from ex cricketer Sunil Gavaskar and former chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar.

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