Ganguly should own up to his mistakes

Sourav Ganguly is in the dock for slow-over rates and the nation's cricketing machinery is working overtime to bail him out, perhaps more for reasons of national pride than anything else.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has been at it since March; it has not made much headway with the International Cricket Council.
Meanwhile, Ganguly is the 16th man in the squad for the Sri Lanka tri-series.The nation is supposed to hold its breath — will he make it or not? We all know that modern societies contrive all manner of thrills to keep their people in thrall, but this is a bit much. Getting a high over Ganguly's place in the team is an insult to a cricket lover's intelligence.
The weather's quite lovely in Glamorgan and Ganguly has played some sweet little innings there. Wodehouse would have loved it. Shouldn't we let him sip his four o'clock tea and that sort of thing? Why should BCCI be so keen to yank him out of old Blighty and transport him to sweaty Sri Lanka, when he is not exactly the most sensational batsman in the circuit? Ganguly would do his fans a service if he owned up for his slow-over rate and saved BCCI's energies. Like the BCCI, is a misplaced sense of patriotic prestige holding him up?
We all know Ganguly would be known as an aggressive rather than a sportsmanlike captain. He has transformed the image of the Indian team from being a docile outfit that succumbed to psychological pressure, to one that matches its opponents sledge for sledge, if not foul for foul. The GenNext bunch in the team has little time for niceties — Harbhajan Singh and Virender Sehwag have been pulled up for "enthusiastic" appealing. Between Pepsi breaks, perhaps team Samsung should reflect on the pleasures of sportsmanship as well — without Ganguly as their boss.