But Ganguly has also gone and complicated his life beyond all reasonable levels bymoving around with Nagma and forgetting how to bat. Anyone who saw him strugglinghorrendously in the fourth ODI would know that this is not just a matter of poor form. Hescored 9 off 36 deliveries, chasing a target with an asking rate of near 7, totallyflummoxed and getting increasingly desperate, taking wild heaves and missing and making afool of himself. His dismissal was euthanasia. Everyone goes through these bad patches(remember Mohinder Amarnath at the peak of his powers suddenly scoring four or five zeroesin a row), but Ganguly's woes seem to run deeper. In all 11 innings that he has played inthis series (Tests, one-dayers and one first class match), Australia has used the sametactic against him, without even the slightest variation. They just pack the off-sidefield (in fact seven men on the offside and a laughable two on the onside) and bowl to himon or outside the off-stump. Ganguly dutifully keeps playing offside strokes, all of whichare blocked off by fielders, and finally gets frustrated and gets out. If the same tactichas worked against you for 11 consecutive innings (in the Calcutta Test second innings, hescored a very patchy 48, that's all), you obviously have a very large hole in yourarmoury. Which is fine, most batsmen have their weak points. But when you can't correct itin 11 innings, you have a real big problem on your hands.