Former India captain and Cricket Association of Bengal president Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday denied he’s a frontrunner to become the Board president after the latest turn of events at the BCCI.
Dismissing the suggestion that he was running for the post of BCCI president, Ganguly said at CAB office:
“My name is coming up unnecessarily. I don’t qualify. I have just completed one year (as the CAB president) and have got two more years left. I am not in the running (for the BCCI president’s post).”
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The apex Indian court had a massive crackdown at the functioning of the most power cricket board in the world, the BCCI. Supreme Court gave a huge setback to the BCCI by sacking its president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke.
The Jharkhand Cricket Association (JCA) chief Amitabh Chaudhary, the current Joint Secretary, will take the position of Ajay Shirke but the biggest question is who will be BCCI’s next President.
Asked whether the CAB would implement the Lodha Committee’s reforms, Ganguly said the association had no option but to obey the SC order.
“We are having an office-bearers’ meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) where we will decide on the future,” he said.
The CAB has called a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the way forward. The CAB chief said even though several of the present officials would be ineligible to contest in the association’s polls, there would be others to fill the void.
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