Can matters; issues; ego clashes; innuendos and acrimonious exchanges between Ranji Trophy team mates get any more heinous; deplorable and condemnable than this.......
According to alarming and distressing reports emanating from the Bengal Ranji Trophy team; the sporty petrel of the team Ashok Dinda and the uber cool left arm twirler Pragyan Ojha were involved in an unseemly and fratricidal fracas during the course of a warm up session on the eve of their forthcoming fixture against the men from Tamil Nadu in Rajkot......
Dinda who has a chequered and none too favourable history of being involved in innumerable such spats in the not too distant past was the instigator as he freely indulged in a series of potentially debilitating and disabling tackles during the course of the now mandatory eight a side football match before the commencement of the far more arduous and demanding three hour long nets session.......
What makes the situation even more galling and perturbing is the fact that team Bengal skipper Manoj Tewary and head coach Sairaj bahutule had issued an express diktat forbidding the players from indulging in these bone crunching and potentially career shortening tackles as the same could cut a budding career down in it's prime.......
Dinda however was dishing out these acrimonious tackles despite his team mates protestations and protests and was particularly infuriated and incensed when the so called "outsider" Pragyan Ojha who had shifted his allegiance to the beleaguered Bengal side at Saurav Dada Ganguly's insistence from Hyderabad some two odd seasons ago soon found himself flat on his back as he was at the receiving end of a totally unwarranted and unheralded shove from Dinda who took umbrage to Ojha's disdainful remarks about his reprehensible tendencies......
Better sense however prevailed as Messrs Tewary and Bahutule stepped in and mediated a peace settlement that was acceptable to both the sparring parties; matters were however escalated to the level of the Cricket Association Of Bengal President (Saurav "Dada" Ganguly) who firstly gave the two former team India cricketers a piece of his mind before impressing upon them the express need to set aside their reported differences in the larger interests of their struggling team.......
The storm seems to have blown over for now and here's hoping that better sense and sanity prevails in the ranks throughout the remainder of the domestic cricketing season.......
According to alarming and distressing reports emanating from the Bengal Ranji Trophy team; the sporty petrel of the team Ashok Dinda and the uber cool left arm twirler Pragyan Ojha were involved in an unseemly and fratricidal fracas during the course of a warm up session on the eve of their forthcoming fixture against the men from Tamil Nadu in Rajkot......
Dinda who has a chequered and none too favourable history of being involved in innumerable such spats in the not too distant past was the instigator as he freely indulged in a series of potentially debilitating and disabling tackles during the course of the now mandatory eight a side football match before the commencement of the far more arduous and demanding three hour long nets session.......
What makes the situation even more galling and perturbing is the fact that team Bengal skipper Manoj Tewary and head coach Sairaj bahutule had issued an express diktat forbidding the players from indulging in these bone crunching and potentially career shortening tackles as the same could cut a budding career down in it's prime.......
Dinda however was dishing out these acrimonious tackles despite his team mates protestations and protests and was particularly infuriated and incensed when the so called "outsider" Pragyan Ojha who had shifted his allegiance to the beleaguered Bengal side at Saurav Dada Ganguly's insistence from Hyderabad some two odd seasons ago soon found himself flat on his back as he was at the receiving end of a totally unwarranted and unheralded shove from Dinda who took umbrage to Ojha's disdainful remarks about his reprehensible tendencies......
Better sense however prevailed as Messrs Tewary and Bahutule stepped in and mediated a peace settlement that was acceptable to both the sparring parties; matters were however escalated to the level of the Cricket Association Of Bengal President (Saurav "Dada" Ganguly) who firstly gave the two former team India cricketers a piece of his mind before impressing upon them the express need to set aside their reported differences in the larger interests of their struggling team.......
The storm seems to have blown over for now and here's hoping that better sense and sanity prevails in the ranks throughout the remainder of the domestic cricketing season.......
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