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Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has requested aggrieved veteran stumper Wriddhiman Saha to play “one final match” for his house state Bengal earlier than calling it quits, Tripura Cricket Affiliation joint secretary Jayanta Dey mentioned on Monday. The 39-year-old, who joined Tripura after a rift with some Cricket Affiliation of Bengal officers in 2022, met Ganguly right here.
“Ganguly desires Saha to retire for Bengal, taking part in at the least one final match. Saha instructed me this. However he is but to ask for an NOC (no objection certificates) from Tripura,” Dey instructed PTI.
“Now we have lately given NOC to Sudip Chatterjee who is about for a Bengal return, however Saha has not requested for it as of now,” he added.
It stays to be seen if Saha might flip up for Siliguri Strikers within the Bengal Professional T20 franchise league starting on June 11, even because the gamers draft for the groups are over.
Their assembly comes two years after Saha had hit out in opposition to the Ganguly-led BCCI after he was not picked for the India house Check collection in opposition to Sri Lanka.
He had revealed personal dressing room conversations between him and head coach Rahul Dravid concerning his future that he ought to “take into consideration retirement”. He had additional claimed that Ganguly had assured him a “spot” within the group.
Saha then selected to not play for Bengal as a senior official Debabrata Das had raised questions on his commitments main to a different fallout.
Saha even stop Bengal group’s WhatsApp group and went on to affix Tripura. The then CAB president Avishek Dalmiya tried to purusade Saha again into Bengal fold however he remained adamant.
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