India vs Sri Lanka: Disappointed Wriddhiman Saha not ready to quit

Saha vented out his frustration after being dropped from the India squad for the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka. Although the words about his exit were doing the rounds for quite some time now, the Bengal player had kept mum so far. The chairman of India's senior men's cricket team Chetan Sharma did not disclose the exact reason for ignoring Saha, but stated that the player was told about it just after the South Africa Test series. "I can't tell you on what grounds he (Saha) has been dropped. That is for the selectors only. All I can tell you is that he was told before," he said on Saturday after announcing the squad.

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White-ball skipper Rohit Sharma was on Saturday officially named captain of the Indian Test team for the upcoming two-match series against Sri Lanka, starting March 4. Senior batsmen Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara, who are battling poor form, were dropped. Senior wicket-keeper Wriddhiman Saha

Saha agreed to that. "Yes, the team management told me that I would not be considered henceforth. I could not tell this so long as I was part of the India team setup," he said on Saturday. "Even coach Rahul Dravid suggested that I think about taking retirement," he added. But what pained the Siliguri boy was silence on the part of board president Sourav Ganguly on the matter. "When I hit an unbeaten 61 taking a pain-killer in the first Test against New Zealand in Kanpur last November, Dadi (as Sourav was referred to by Bengal players) congratulated me over Whatsapp. He even mentioned that I should not worry about anything so long as he is at the helm of