Mamata Banerjee said Sourav Ganguly "has been deprived" of his post as Indian cricket board chairman and appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "compensate him" by sending him to the ICC (International Cricket Council). Sourav Ganguly had been "unfairly left out", the Bengal Chief Minister said, calling it "bad and sad". As politics attack the free spirit of sport, on Left Right and Centre, a discussion on whether sports will ever get free from politics.