Dear Ankush, Cricket is highly an unpredictable game. there are good and bad days. And India had an unfortunately a bad day that any of these (sehwag, sachin, dravid & dhoni) could not stay there for longer time. But saurav had a good day on that day. remember he faced about 130 balls for his meek 60 odd runs. But sachin, dravid, dhoni or sehwag had that chance of playing atleast 75 balls they would have definitely crossed 100 runs. Frankly gangu was too defensive from the begining. He slowed down the run rate. if one or two wickets fall, it does not mean that you should stay away from scoring runs. It was his negative cricket which upset the whole batting order. similarly, in the second match also he started to be very defensive. what for you tend to be very defensive when you are forced to make a huge score for the survival of the team? Remember sehwag also too defensive at starting of his innings. dhoni, sachin, yuvaraj also the same for that matter. But being there at the crease you need to take the resposiblity to score faster in order to install confidence to the new batsman who arrive at the crease during a wicket' fall. I am sure that gangu is aware of this fact. He started accelerating in the second only after yuvaraj started going big and india reaching a good winning score. and immely he got out also. If you have not watched gangu in this angle yet, pl watch his next game. he is definitly not playing for the team now. I am really aware of ganguly's skills and he comes down the pitch against spinners, it could not be anything less than six. But i do not need to say how many balls he could touch coming down the crease the last two matches. And he got out at coming down the pitch. He indeed gifted his wicket in the bangladesh match when it was needed the most. Pl. do not get annoyed with my comments. But this is the truth and i know that it is difficult to accept also.
