Sports
New book on Sourav Ganguly recounts his career, controversies
Kolkata, April 28
A book recounting former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly's incident-filled cricket career has been unveiled here.
Penned
by a digital marketing expert with an IT company, Satptarshi Sarkar - a
die-hard fan of the "Prince of Kolkata" - the book "Sourav Ganguly:
Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy" analyses various facets of Ganguly's
life as a cricketer and as captain of the Indian team.
"It
probes the symbiotic relationship between the man and the cricketer. I
used to run a website called welovesourav.com where there would be
interesting stories about 'Dada' (as Ganguly is affectionately called)
and the people reading them would tell me to write a book, now I think I
have enough material to compile one and so I did," said Sarkar, hailing
from the city where the left-hand batsman grew up playing the game.
The
book deals with many controversies involving the southpaw, highlighted
by the infamous fall-out with former India coach Greg Chappell.
Among
the dignitaries present at Monday's launch were Ganguly's childhood
coach Ashok Mustafi from Dhukhiram coaching centre, former cricketer
turned author Raju Mukherjee and ex-Bengal cricketer Gopal Basu.
However, Ganguly was not present due to his busy sched