AHMEDABAD, OCTOBER 9 Even as he was scoring a typically graceful century, Saurav Ganguly exhibited his graceless side today in rubbing up the umpires the wrong way. His display evoked memories of two years ago, when similar behaviour fetched him bans from playing.
The Indian skipper was warned twice while batting on Thursday, once each by David Shephard and Rudy Koertzen, for beginning his runs from the middle of the wicket. The umpires acted on Stephen Fleming’s complaints; the Kiwi skipper was worried that the wicket would get roughed up and work to his team’s disadvantage when they batted. The second time, when he was on 76, the two runs he took were disallowed, to which Ganguly protested. When the umpire would have none of it, he ran his next run almost in an arc, as if daring the umpires to disallow it again.
When asked about it later, Ganguly said he was not running on the wicket deliberately. ‘‘I did it unknowingly, but the umpire is the boss on the field,’’ he said.
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