Three captains for KKR! Ganguly asked to share captaincy

Saurav Ganguly, captain of Kolkata Knight Riders for IPL Season 1 got a shocker when he came to know through newspaper that he is no more the 'fixed' captain of KKR for IPL edition 2. The coach of Kolkata Knight Riders coach John Buchanan has dropped Sourav Ganguly as the fixed skipper and instead declared that there will be three captains in the KKR team. Kolkata Knight Riders seems to be in trouble, with politics brewing in even before the IPL 2 kicks in. Conveying to Ganguly that he is no more a fixed skipper through a newspaper is blasphemous.


The coach says that the choice of multiple captains has nothing to do with the performance or the fitness of Ganguly. One can definitely smell something fishy in John Buchanan's statement and we can make out that he wanted Ganguly to be axed as the captain. In a press conference, Buchanan said that the manager or the coach is more important than a captain because IPL is more about strategizing.

However, there was no reason to totally axe Ganguly. His face registered displeasure though he put a brave front in front of the press reporters. About the four captain formula, Ganguly said, " It is new and I think we will have to access it. John has all the right to make the decision, he is the coach of the team...He has been pretty open about his views and we will stick to it. I have nothing to say about this." From the interview here from TimesNow and the facial expression at the press conference, Ganguly looks clearly dejected of being kicked out of IPL captaincy.