He has seemingly not forgiven him for kicking out "his" players either apparently. He still wants Harbhajan and Yuvraj back in the side. In fact, I feel there is a rising correlation between MSD getting increasingly frustrated and sidelined in Indian cricket and Ganguly's rising influence on it. I can only hope I am wrong here but with every day, I am starting to think Ganguly is showing more of his post 2003 captaincy traits in Indian cricket administration now. You can still see it in his commentary. He is obviously on target with certain aspects but it is just so obvious that he rates a few players and will constantly put down the ones he does not rate, irrespective of how good they are and how well they actually perform.
Of course it does help that suddenly so many of the Indian cricket fans seem to remember Dalmiya and Ganguly for their best years. Everyone seems to have forgotten how Dalmiya held on to power in 2004 with that ridiculous voting pattern when he lost the vote by 2 and then used his votes as CAB president AND board president to make it a tie and then used his own vote as the president for the tie breaker and made Ranbir Singh Mahendra the BCCI President. To me, Dalmiya, Pawar et al are just as corrupt as Srinivasan seems to be, if not more. It is just that they did not alienate media and all others as arrogantly as Srinivasan did. And you can read up even here on how much we hated Ganguly's captaincy post 2003 WC here at CW itself. I guess retirement and being away from the limelight does make people forget all the bad things. Cozying up to Sachin always helps too.
