Ganguly to appeal again

Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly is likely to go for another appeal against the six-match ban slapped on him after ICC Appeal Commissioner Michael Beloff rejected his first appeal to overturn the initial decision.

"We have to examine various options. The match is not yet over," Jagmohan Dalmiya, former BCCI president, told newsmen in Kolkata on Monday after holding a one-and-a-half-hour meeting with Ganguly and noted lawyer Siddhartha Shankar Ray, who had represented the Indian skipper.

The meeting was held at Ray's residence after it was learnt that ICC Appeal Commissioner had rejected Ganguly's appeal for lack of "sufficient merit."

Dalmiya, who is the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal, however, indicated that the Appeal Commissioner's verdict was not proper while referring to a similar situation five months ago when a two-Test match ban on Ganguly had been removed.

"The decision of the Appeal Commissioner is identical to what Chris Broad (who slapped six-match ban on Ganguly) had said, but to me the case this time appeared like what was before Tim Castle the last time around. However,  this time the verdict has been different," Dalmiya said.

Castle was the Appeal Commissioner in November last year when he overturned the two-Test match ban slapped on Ganguly by Clive Lloyd for a similar offence.

To a specific query whether Ganguly would be going for another appeal, he said, "Now what is going to happen you have to wait for that."