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Here we can keep a tab on Shahrukh's idiotic comments in a single place:

Shah Rukh is in damage control
- After the humiliation, talk of a role! 
LOKENDRA PRATAP SAHI
  http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110111/jsp/sports/story_13421600.jsp

Calcutta: Being the principal owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Shah Rukh Khan has the right to have the team of his choice. That can’t be questioned, certainly not by burning his effigy.

However, for Shah Rukh to now say that “I would like him (Sourav Ganguly) to be a part of KKR in some capacity or the other” is definitely amusing.

Actually, Sourav may even take that as adding insult to injury.

“Some capacity or the other,” after all, should have been finalised before the two-day auction for IPL IV and V got under way, in Bangalore, on Saturday.

Provided both parties were game, the arrangement could have been on the lines of Anil Kumble’s with the Vijay Mallya-owned Royal Challengers Bangalore, a franchise he captained for one-and-a-half seasons.

Shah Rukh, among other things, told the media on Sunday (in Durban): “I love him (Sourav), he’s my favourite player... Yeah, I feel very sad... I would like him to be a part of KKR in some capacity or the other... Inshallah, we will...

“I’d love Sourav to be an integral part of KKR... You don’t have a team in Calcutta without Sourav in it. I’ll speak to Dada when I get back. We love each other.”

That was some hours after the auction process got completed.

Many may, of course, take Shah Rukh’s comments with a pinch of salt. For, in March 2009, Sourav was removed as the KKR captain less than 24 hours after Shah Rukh messaged The Telegraph that the franchise “respected Dada’s genius.”

John Buchanan was ‘blamed’ for that; now, it’s the team management under his successor, Dav Whatmore. Australians both.

Clearly, big decisions would need Shah Rukh’s clearance, if not that of Jay Mehta, a co-owner, as well.

A personal call from Shah Rukh to Sourav, before the auction, wouldn’t have led to so much ugliness and heartburn.

Shah Rukh’s an absolute master of a medium built around communication and, so, it’s surprising that he neither spoke to Sourav when the franchise decided not to retain a single player nor in the lead-up to what ended in humiliation for the icon of the first three seasons.

For his part, Sourav has no desire to be a mentor — not that such a role had (till late on Monday) been offered. Wasim Akram, in any case, is already in that position.

Shah Rukh’s spot on, though, when he makes the point that KKR just haven’t delivered. “I hate losing... I feel very sad, very depressed... Inshallah, it’s a new beginning, a new team... I want to win the IPL for my children (Aryan, Suhana).”

Having hit an air pocket straightaway, Shah Rukh needs to get out of it very quickly.

It’s probably to Shah Rukh’s advantage that the IPL’s next edition won’t begin before April 8, allowing time for the anger in many areas to subside. Also, in between, is the much-awaited World Cup.
 

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NEW DELHI: Extending another olive branch to Sourav Ganguly, Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan said that the decision to drop the former Indian captain from the Kolkata Knight Riders team was taken with a very heavy heart.

Talking to reporters, King Khan said, he always wanted Sourav to be part of Kolkata Knight Riders.

"Dada is like a younger brother to me and I want to win more games together," Shah Rukh added.

Looking for a better future of his team, Shahrukh wants to keep sacrifices and issues behind to emerge as winners, more importantly play with the right spirit.

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Come to think of it, SRK must be loving it...all of this is getting him free media

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I hope SG gives him the bird when he offers some crappy role.