‘I can be a fool once, not twice’: Sourav Ganguly rejected Greg Chappell’s Imran Khan appeal, was approached in 2011 too
Most old wounds heal with time, but in Sourav Ganguly’s case, it seems the Greg Chappell chapter will always remain one of the most bitter experiences of his life. How else do you explain that, even 20 years after the Chappell Ganguly saga unfolded, the former India captain refuses to forgive the Australian for what transpired during those 12 tumultuous months in 2005-06? Chappell barely seems to exist for Ganguly. In fact, Ganguly revealed that when the former Australia coach reached out to him in February, seeking his support for a petition urging medical care for the jailed Imran Khan, the former BCCI chief did not reply. Sourav Ganbuly and Greg Chappell in the mid 2000s (AFP) “Yes, but I don’t answer him,” Ganguly told senior sports journalist Gautam Bhattacharya on the AddaGBPodcast when asked if he too received Chappell’s interest in signing the petition. “I don’t answer people who are not honest. You may have opinions. You may feel that someone is not a good player or an average player, but I don’t like …
