Chennai: There has been no play on the first two days at the Chepauk and, so far, no opportunity for Clive Lloyd and Sourav Ganguly to cross each other’s path. The longest-serving Match Referee, however, maintains he doesn’t have a problem with the former Indian captain.

Lloyd, it may be recalled, banned Sourav for two Tests as India were way behind on the over-rate during the November 2004 Platinum Jubilee ODI against Pakistan (at the Eden). Subsequently, appeals commissioner Tim Castle overturned the punishment.

“I don’t have a problem with Ganguly... I’d only followed the rule book... He was entitled to appeal and it got upheld... Clearly, I didn’t have anything personal then and there can’t be anything personal now,” Lloyd, assigned the three-Test series versus Sri Lanka, told The Telegraph on Saturday.

This is the legendary West Indian’s first assignment featuring India since that one-off ODI. Usually, if not on the ground, players and match officials do bump into each other at the team hotel. For this Test, though, the teams and officials haven’t been accommodated together.