New Delhi, Dec 16: Already reeling under attack, the Cricket Board today came in for flak from some of its own members as the uproar over Sourav Ganguly's unceremonious sacking from the Test squad gathered momentum with politicans from West Bengal lending their voice to the former captain.

The issue cropped up in Lok Sabha where Speaker Somnath Chatterjee was critical of the decision to sack Ganguly whom he described as a "world class player". Raj Singh Dungarpur, an important member of the Sharad Pawar camp, added a new twist to the controversial axing of Ganguly by saying that BCCI President's proposed move to speak to national selectors on the issue would set a bad precedent.

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Pawar, who had yesterday expressed "hurt and shock" over Ganguly's sacking refused to answer any questions on a day which saw defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya throwing their weight behind the beleaguered Bengal cricketer.

As the BCCI tried to contend with the growing sympathy wave for the deposed captain, it received a jolt from its own house as two of its sub-committee members expressed resentment over the manner in which Ganguly was dropped from the team for the third Test in Ahmedabad.

The two committee members demanded that the selectors "redress the wrong" done to Ganguly by reinstating him in the national squad. One of them also threatened to quit if the Bengal cricketer was not included in the squad for the tour of Pakistan. (Agencies) 

Published: Friday, December 16, 2005