- Sidharth Monga
Sunday
morning at the Gabba, Sourav Ganguly was a man
who had won himself, who had overcome his self
doubts, who had got himself out of his own way.
When he swept MacGill
just wide of the fine leg, Ganguly ran very hard
to convert what was nothing more than an easy
one by his and Laxman’s standards, into a couple
to get to his hundred. He leapt twice in
elation, almost tripped over, pumped the air,
had arms aloft and without uttering a word told
every Australian that he enjoyed the ‘sweet chin
music’. That one ball just summed up Ganguly’s
day. Urgent, emotional, doubtlessly decisive and
arrogant to the core.
A rare mix of pride and
humility, Ganguly, in his 11th ton,
took us ten centuries back. On a cold day at
Lord’s, when the ODI discard scored a century on
test debut, he showed a lot of purpose, focus
and cold belief that he could do it. And 10
centuries later, the Gabba saw the same self
belief, disdain and application from the man
most of Australia thought wouldn’t be able to
stand up to the ‘chin music’.
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