Sourav great player in lean patch: Pawar

Asked if there was pressure on the selectors to pick him in the squad after it was reported that the matter would be discussed in Parliament, a visibly irritated Pawar 8212; here primarily on a political engagement 8212; said Parliament had no business discussing selection issues.

8216;8216;Tell me, who was going to answer the debate in Parliament? The sports minister? He doesn8217;t know the selection matters. I feel such issues should be kept away from Parliament.8217;8217;

8216;8216;Ganguly is a great player8230;He is going through a lean phase. Even Sachin Tendulkar was going through a similar lean phase until he hit that record 35th Test hundred.

8216;8216;Ups and downs are part of the game. The team management will decide how to use Ganguly in the forthcoming series.8217;8217;

Pawar also said he felt there were a lot of discrepencies in the ICC calendar. 8216;8216;Yes, there are some differences. It is strange that the best cricketing nation in the world, Australia, is scheduled to visit India in 2011 while Indians go there twice in between. What sort of justice is this? There should be more reason in deciding the calendar. We want to play more frequently against stronger teams.8217;8217;

On the increasing bitterness with every passing year in the BCCI elections, he said there was 8216;8216;some bitterness8217;8217; during elections but it was because the president had more than one vote. 8216;8216;That was unfair. We also wanted the voters list to be displayed well before elections.8217;8217;

The Supreme Court, he said, conducted the elections in a 8216;8216;fine manner8217;8217; and some of these steps would be taken into account when amending the constitution.

He also rubbished the suggestion that after his coming to power, many West Zone players including Parthiv Patel and Zaheer Khan were back in favour.

8216;8216;They are all good players. Regarding Parthiv, the team management felt they needed two wicketkeepers for such a long tour.8217;8217;