Is it true that Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly are not going to participate in the 2008 Champions Trophy?

Question

Is it true that Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly are not going to participate in the 2008 Champions Trophy?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Yes unfortunately it's true. Such excellent players as Dravid and Ganguly of extraordinary calibre has been excluded even from the list of the 30 probables for the ICC Champions trophy, only because of the dirty politics of the BCCI officials, and the high handedness of the ODI skipper MS Dhoni. This is truly not a good sign for Indian cricket. In the ICC Champions trophy India needed the talent and the experience of Sourav and Dravid. Their presence may have proved crucial for the team.

Answer 3

not really, they will also participate at the VIP stands, whenever the matches will be held at Kolkata and Bangalore !

Answer 4

yea and they are both old now. i think they need to call it quits

Answer 5

Yes it is true. Dravid and Ganguly both failed  to find favour for the 50-over format,so younger players instead have been named into the squad.

30 Member Squad

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Robin Uthappa, Suresh Raina, Piyush Chawla, RP Singh, Irfan Pathan, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Manpreet Singh Gony, Pragyan Ojha, Parthiv Patel, Dinesh Karthik, S Badrinath, Mohammad Kaif, Manoj Tiwary, Abhishek Nayar, Pankaj Singh, Murali Kartik, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajinkya Rahane, Yusuf Pathan, S Sreesanth

                 -whoo

Answer 6

they are definately not going to participate because they haven't even made it to the 30 probable, then how could they make it to the fielding XI side of the Indian team.

Truly one thing is written for sure, It is definately the end of

Dravid and Ganguly in ODI and T20.

Please retire both of you gracefully or you will get no opportunities at all.

Answer 7

i definitely think they're not going to be in the one-day side anymore not only because they're not in the 30v probables but because they're too old and BCCI wants to give the younger players some match experience and learn to play in pressure before playing in the 2011 world cup as ganguly and dravid are likely not be there when the times come around. ganguly and dravid are anyways have quite bad strike rates and will have to play at an extraordinary level to play in the team but should retire gracefully like laxman and kumble have from ODI's.

Answer 8

its true