CHENNAI, INDIA, July 18, 2002: Road side temples for Lord Ganesha are a common site in this city. One temple of Lord Ganesha has now been built in the city by a cricket fan to remove obstacles in the way of the Indian cricket team. Ramakrishnan got a granite icon of Ganesh installed with the trunk pointing to the right. This is so because he believes that it helped the right-handed batsmen. Another icon has the trunk pointing to the left, which he believes helped the performance of left-handed players in the team. He claims that Ganesa changed the fortunes of Indian cricket dramatically, and the Indian team went on to win the series against Australia.
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