Its time to Move On for KolKata

Kolkata is known for its love for sport be it football or be it Cricket or any sport, that is what we have seen so far, and 12 th april night they prove it again by coming in big numbers to watch KKR vs DC ipl4 T20 match, to support their home team KolKata Knight Riders. Of course the numbers of people were less than we have expected but it was around 70 % of capacity. Considering the capacity of the Edan Garden it was quite good. But the absence of the legend Saurabh Ganguly in public was quite visible and it is understandable too but not a bright sign for the future of sports in KolKata, Ganguly has been a legend player & captain of India for long time, he took the command of Indian cricket when Indian cricket was hanging between clouds of fixing and uncertainties, at that time He comes and took Indian cricket from that place to the top at 2003 world cup final. Today India is No.1 team in test, No.1 in ODIs & World Champions, Ganguly & other seniors gave that believe in Indian youngsters that they can become world champion, they have the capablities and talent, Ganguly started the revolution in Indian cricket & Mahendra Singh dhoni is taking it to the top. In this journey Kolkata had been always behind him to support, in this journey for some people Ganguly has been the inspiration to come and watch cricket, be it in Team India or be it later KKR which is quite understandable seeing their love for ganguly but at the same time this section of people forgot that cricket not only cricket but every sports have its hard rules which no one can skip or ignore for so long, there is a limit for everything, one has to stop somewhere around. Ganguly was known as a winning captain throughout his career in Team India and it was expected with KKR too, but things went wrong terribly for KKR and as being the captain of KKR went for Saurabh too rest is history no KKR fans want to remember. Before saying good bye to international cricket everyone knows SG was struggling a lot on the field, He scored lots of runs to support him but that SG was nowhere around which we were use to see, It was SG’s hard working nature which was motivating him to keep hanging there but it was painful to see your fav batsman on the field struggling to play his shots, every time he has to come on the field to prove that he still can play, the indication was clear that was time for SG to sign off to cricket but he took it little far away. After Ganguly joined KKR no doubt he was scoring runs, he has been the top run scorers from KKR in few seasons of IPL, for a class where SG belongs it was no surprising to see him scoring runs, but he was struggling in the same time for scoring these runs which was not a good sign for KKR, SG was playing for KKR in his extended like career which was not good for a legend, in between we can not blame SG for all others were responsible for same. And for a captain no matter how bad or good he has performed in the end result matters which never come in SG’s way. In cricket one day you have to say good bye to it, it’s the reality if someone don’t say, cricket will say itself, be it Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavskar or Anil Kumble. Anil kumble is the best example of what a cricketer should do and how a cricketer should finish his career, today if you bring Anil Kumble on the field he will strike again but he sign off his career at the top of his game. And the same way SG have to accept the fact of cricket. There is a section of people who loves SG have to understand this fact & respect it otherwise they are simply ruining the respect of SG’s in the heart of Indians. On the other side KKR had no option rather than starting from the scratch, the anger of people ( some section) is understandable but not mature to support in any case, People should understand that everything does not end with SG, this attitude of people if it is a big section of total will ruin the future of young players from Kolkata, there are many young players from Kolkata are playing for KKR, they are future of sports, they need your support, if you don’t support them they are not going to make it to the top and it is not a healthy thing. Its not only KKR, everyone else be it any other IPL franchises or BCCI selection committee everyone will think twice before picking any player from Kolkata because of this kind of immatureness, and the result you can think of.   On the positive side which is the bigger section of people will keep supporting their young players, which was clearly shown in the match KKR vs DC. This is the right time for SG to come up & support young players. If he comes up & support them it will be great gesture for young players playing there. If he decides to stay back & lets the things happening around which some immature section of people are calling revenge of Kolkata than it will be like a win where in which you are going to lost everything , the young players will blame you for years to come. We hope SG would not want it to happen and he will come up, if he won’t come up than it will be unfortunate thing. On a positive note let’s hope KKR will do better this time & we know win can change everything in any sports. And Its time to move on for Kolkata to produce another Saurabh Ganguly from KolKata otherwise it will not be good for sports in Kolkata. “Change is the rule of universe those who don’t change, don’t exists”