Shahrukh Khan: No IPL team possible in Kolkata without Dada
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oi-Kalyani Prasad Keshri
By Kalyani Prasad Keshri
New
Delhi(ANI):
After
being
heavily
criticized
from
almost
all
quarters
for
ignoring
former
Indian
skipper
Sourav
Ganguly
in
the
recently
held
Indian
Premier
League
(IPL)
auction,
Bollywood
actor
and
Kolkata
Knight
Riders
(KKR)
co-owner
Shahrukh
Khan
has
said
that
there
is
no
IPL
team
possible
in
Kolkata
without
Ganguly.
"I
would
love
it.
I
would
love
Sourav
to
be
an
integral
part.
You
don't
have
a
team
in
Kolkata
without
him," Times
Now
quoted
Shahrukh
Khan,
as
saying.
Shahrukh
also
said
that
he
will
talk
to
Ganguly
and
that
his
team
will
try
to
take
him
onboard,
since
he
remains
unsold
in
the
recently
concluded
IPL
auction.
Ganguly,
who
led
Kolkata
Knight
Riders
in
the
last
three
editions,
failed
to
get
a
buyer
in
the
two-day
IPL
players' auction
in
Bangalore.
Ganguly's
name,
in
fact,
did
not
even
come
up
in
the
second
round
of
bidding,
the
players
for
which
were
handpicked
by
the
franchises,
prompting
angry
fans
to
stage
protests
against
his
former
team
Kolkata
Knight
Riders
in
the
Bengal
capital.
A
total
of
241
of
the
353
players
in
fray
went
unsold
in
the
first
round
of
auctions,
which
spanned
over
two
days.
28
players
came
up
for
a
re-auctioning
on
the
request
of
the
franchises
but
again
some
of
them
strangely
went
unsold.