After all the spin and counter-spin, it’s official: Sourav Ganguly is injured, it’s not serious but his participation in the Mumbai Test is still uncertain. The official diagnosis is ‘‘intra-articular pathology of the right hip joint noted by increased synovial fluid accumulation.’’Team India physio Andrew Leipus, deconstructing the medical jargon, said that fluid collected in the hip-joint area had caused a swelling and the resultant pain. The pain travels from the hip down to the thigh and the groin area, but yet the cause of injury is not known, nor could Leipus give any time-frame for the recovery.Ganguly, he said, could have contracted it either while batting or fielding and the injury ‘‘could be’’ the same he incurred in the Bangalore Test.‘‘Thankfully the bone scan yesterday did not show anything. We had already got the gist from the MRI scan we had conducted a couple of days back.’’ So why the bone scan? ‘‘Just to make sure that there was nothing more sinister than the fluid.’’The best treatment, said Dr Sanjay Marwah, the medic who conducted the scans on Ganguly, is a combination of rest and anti-inflmmatory deep heat.For now, though, Leipus said Ganguly would have a light workload and then after a couple of days he could start running around. Friday would also be a day when Ganguly would take injections around the affected area, though the exact source of pain is yet to be known.Ganguly himself appeared quite disappointed at having to sit out the match. ‘‘There is still some pain, but the medicines and exercise should help me,’’ he said.
