Meticulous To Detail

I must say Ganguly is meticulous to detail, if not anything else. This incident proves it.

I was following Kochi cricket match on Radio, courtesy power cuts. Less than the time one can prepare a maggi, he was bowled out. Radio commentators kept shouting he was "clean bowled" behind his legs.

A batsman is "bowled" when ball hits either of three stumps. A "clean bowled" is when ball hits the middle stump. To get out "clean bowled" from behind the legs, a batsman should have walked quite a far across. This sounded silly, but I believed the commentator. Only Ganguly could have done it.

But actually, he was hit on leg stump only. Radio commentator either over did it or wasn't aware of the difference. Ganguly, probably, took it as an insult. To teach the commentator a lesson, he made a point to get out "clean bowled", in Vizag. He got hit in the middle stump.

Meticulous to the detail, indeed.