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Ganguly arrives for meeting

September 27, 2005

Indian captain Sourav Ganguly arrives for the Board of Control for Cricket in India's review meeting in Mumbai, on Tuesday morning.

The meeting scheduled to start at 12.30 pm was delayed because of the late arrival of Greg Chappell, Ravi Shastri and Sunil Gavaskar.

The review committee is chaired by BCCI President Ranbir Singh Mahendra and the other members attending are convener and BCCI secretary S K Nair, former BCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya and three former national captains -- Gavaskar, Shastri and Srinivas Venkataraghavan.

Cricket's Mahyuddh

Ganguly, who took over in 2000, is India's most successful Test captain with 21 victories but his recent batting form forced Chappell to ask him to step down in Zimbabwe.

The Indian coach also e-mailed the Board claiming Ganguly is not physically and mentally fit to lead the team. Ganguly was accused of creating rifts in the team to save his captaincy.

Ganguly, however, refused to answer the allegations and said he would present his case to the six-member committee.

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

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