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New Delhi, March 5: Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly will do well to start thinking of life outside international cricket.

The beleaguered ex-captain was dropped from the first Test against England and it seems that the national selectors are in no mood to bring him back into the team any time soon.

Ganguly has been the most successful Test skipper of India and is the first and the only Indian captain to have won both the Test and the ODI series on Pakistani soil.

But all these achievements of his is having no affect on the selectors.

Chairman of the selection committe, Kiran More, in an interview to cricinfo said that Ganguly will not be recalled into the Indian team as long as the present selection committee is in office.

When the team for the first Test was announced and More was asked why Ganguly was not in the squad, he had replied that the selection committee was looking ahead.

"There is no looking back on this issue now," More had said.

"We took a decision that we have to look ahead," he said.

"We decided that so much has been said on this issue, that we wanted to send a message across that, 'this is what we are looking at, and as far as this committee is concerned, this is what we have decided, that we will not look back at all."

More further said that the committee was "definitely looking beyond" Ganguly even if he were to perform well in domestic cricket.

The team for the second Test against England at Mohali is to be announced on Sunday evening. Far from the selection drama Ganguly will represent East Zone on Monday at Jaipur in the Deodhar Trophy.