Is Ganguly headed for Kent?

Indian captain Sourav Ganguly is mulling a session with the Kent County to try and find back his batting form.

Ganguly's childhood coaches and some former players advised him to go in for a season of county cricket, and it looks, as of now, that he is headed for Kent.

John Wright, who finished a five-year stint as India coach on Sunday, had initiated a discussion with the Kent cricket officials, according to sources close to Ganguly.

Ganguly hopes that by playing county cricket he would be able to concentrate better on his game without the pressures of international cricket, captaincy and the hounding of the media.

The beleaguered skipper, who is serving a six-match ban after India's slow over rate in two successive one-dayers of the just-concluded series against Pakistan, spoke to his childhood coach Gopal Bose about his batting.

Ganguly, who is fighting for his place in the team after a string of batting failures, played county cricket before. He represented Lancashire during the 2000-01 seasons.

Besides exploring possibilities of playing county cricket, Ganguly is also engaged in discussions with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) about his ban.

Former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya, who has taken a personal interest in Ganguly's case, has said the issue of the six-match ban isn't over yet.