TRIBULATION OF TITANS

September 2005: The act that brought the man down. A slow hundred against a depleted Zimbabwe at Bulawayo followed by an open spat with Chappell.

Sourav timeline

• September 2005: The act that brought the man down. A slow hundred against a depleted Zimbabwe at Bulawayo followed by an open spat with Chappell. The controversy snowballs into a national crisis.

• November 2005: Selectors end his five-year reign as Test captain when they picked Rahul Dravid to lead India in the Test series against Sri Lanka.

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• January to March 2006: Picked for the Test series in Pakistan. He did not bat in the

first Test, was dropped for the second and scored 34 and 37 in the third at Karachi. Not enough to secure a spot in the one-day series. Dropped for home series against England.

A series of stoic performance at Northamptonshire followed by good performance in domestic cricket and repeated failure of Indian batting order puts Ganguly back in reckoning.

• November 2006: After spending months on the sidelines, Ganguly, against all odds, was included in the squad for the Test series in South Africa.

Sachin’s injury trail

• 1999-2003: The injuries — back (1999), toe (2001), ankle (2002-03) and finger (2003) — have seen him collectively miss 45 ODIs and three Tests.

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• 2004: The tennis elbow in 2004 has forced him to skip the Videocon Cup limited-overs series in Holland, the ODI series against England, the ICC Champions Trophy and the first Two Test matches against Australia at home.

• 2006: Another shoulder injury forced him out of the first two Tests of the home series against England.

Tendulkar was operated upon for his injured shoulder forcing him to skip West Indies tour.