Sourav ‘defends’ Kumble googly

Bangalore: Sourav Ganguly had come down to the print media box from the TV commentators’ room, to meet a couple of senior journalists from Calcutta, when Anil Kumble came to the same area.

That was during the second session of play, at the Chinnaswamy, on Sunday.

The former India captains greeted each other and when somebody commented on Kumble’s red-and-gold badge announcing that he was the Karnataka State Cricket Association president, he looked at Sourav and quipped: “He could have something similar, if he wants to!”

Sourav initially pretended not to hear, but then smiled. It’s no secret that, at some point, he’d like to take control of the Cricket Association of Bengal, which has been Jagmohan Dalmiya’s fiefdom.

Asked by The Telegraph if Sourav should take the plunge, so to say, Kumble replied: “It’s entirely up to him... He’ll first have to put together a team...”

Sourav appeared to agree.

Kumble came to power last November, unseating Mysore royal Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar. It helped that cricketers, past and present, got together to end Wadiyar’s three-year rule.

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