The Batting legend Sourav Ganguly is in line to turn out to be just the second India cricketer after Maharaja of Vizianagaram to fill in as the leader of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
The previous India chief documented his assignment for the pined for a post on Monday at the BCCI central station in Mumbai. He was joined by previous BCCI managers Niranjan Shah and N Srinivasan as he turned into the main possibility to document the designation.
Just once before had an India cricketer accomplished the uncommon twofold. Maharaja of Vizianagaram, who drove India in a Test visit to England in 1936. Regardless of playing just 3 Test matches for India, the Maharaja of Vizianagaram a.k.a Vizzy filled in as BCCI president somewhere in the range of 1954 and 1956.
Remarkably, previous India skipper Sunil Gavaskar and Shivlal Yadav have additionally filled in as between time BCCI presidents in 2014.
The BCCI races were planned to be hung on October 23 yet with Sourav Ganguly being the main contender to document his assignment for the top post of Indian cricket, he is set to be chosen unopposed.
An agreement between the state units of BCCI has worked during an informal gathering a week ago. Ganguly was collectively acknowledged as the presidential competitor by the delegates of the state units.
Shedding light on the dramatic turn of events in which he piped Brijesh Patel to become the frontrunner for BCCI president post, Ganguly said: “I didn’t know I would be the President when I came down. You (the reporter) asked me and I told you it’s Brijesh and when I went up and I came to know it has changed. I have never been in a BCCI election and I never knew it worked like this.”
Sourav Ganguly, however, will be able to serve as BCCI president only until September 2020 due to the cooling-off period. He has been holding posts in the Cricket Association of Bengal for the past five years where he currently serves as president and an administrator can only serve six years on the trot.
Ganguly said he was looking forward to taking over the top job and “do something” to correct the hampered image of BCCI. “I am happy with the appointment because this is the time when BCCI’s image has got hampered and it’s a great opportunity for me to do something,”
The Batting legend Sourav Ganguly is in line to turn out to be just the second India cricketer after Maharaja of Vizianagaram to fill in as the leader of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).