5 Indian cricketers who were criticized for their off-field lives

#5 Sourav Ganguly

Sourav Ganguly’s alleged affair with South Indian actress Nagma gained prominence in early 2001. That was the time when India was getting ready to play against Australia at home. Rumours spread that the two had visited a temple in South India and had also performed some puja that was meant for married couples.

Sourav Ganguly’s wife, Dona, had her say about the situation and was quoted by Sify: “It’s all rubbish. I’m extremely angry at the way some newspapers are trying to defame us. It’s unfortunate that Sourav become the victim of such things.”

Though Ganguly denied it, a couple of years later, Nagma herself spoke about the issue but without taking names. The actor was quoted by Savvy magazine as saying: “As long as there is no denial of each other’s existence in each other’s life, any person can say anything they want. There was a career at stake, besides other things, so one had to part. One had to weigh a lot of things, rather than be on an ego trip and insist on being together.”