Nearly three years after stepping down as BCCI chief, former India skipper Sourav Ganguly is poised to re-enter administration. He is expected to file a nomination for the president’s post in the upcoming Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) elections.
Ganguly, now 52, served as the CAB president until 2019, beginning his administrative journey as the secretary of the state unit under the late Jagmohan Dalmiya in 2014. In 2019, he was unanimously elected as the BCCI president with Jay Shah as the secretary. After completing one term, Ganguly stepped aside for 1983 World Cup hero Roger Binny.
“Yes, Sourav is very keen to come back to administration. He has made up his mind to file nomination for the CAB president’s post. If one goes by BCCI constitution, he will have five years (total nine years in state) left. Whether he will be a unanimous choice or there will be an election is still not clear at this stage,” a senior CAB official, privy to the developments in state unit, said on conditions of anonymity.
Incidentally, the current CAB president is Snehasish, who is Ganguly’s older brother.
He is set to complete six years after which he needs to go for a mandatory cooling off period as per the requirements of the Lodha Committee-recommended constitution.
It has been learnt that Ganguly, over the past few months, has been regularly connecting with the member units and a lot of people within the organization believe that someone of his stature needs to come back into the administration.
