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Former India captain Sourav Ganguly's tenure as BCCI President is expected to come to an end this month. These reports have been doing the rounds with the next round of the BCCI elections set elections set to happen on October 18. It is being learned that Ganguly will not contest this time around.
Meanwhile, it has come to the fore that Roger Binny, who was part of the 1983 World Cup-winning team under Kapil Dev, could well be the next BCCI President and is the frontrunner to replace Ganguly at the helm. Although initial reports had suggested that it could be Jay Shah who could get the top job, now it is the former all-rounder who has emerged as the leader in the race.
"It’s an honour that I have been asked to take this role by the members when it’s a new start for the BCCI. Things need to be brought back in place, reforms need to done, huge amounts of money to be paid to state associations," Ganguly had said in his first address to the medi after taking over as the BCCI President.
"It’s a challenge and I’ll do it the way I know. The way which I feel is best for BCCI with no compromise on credibility, corruption-free and same-for-all BCCI. That’s the way I led India and that’s the way I will take forward this organisation with whatever time I have," he had added.
In what can be said as an eerie similarity between the time he took over national team captaincy and the BCCI President role, there was uncertainty within the cricketing circles of the country. While Ganguly was made the captain after the entire match-fixing scandal broke out, his term as the BCCI President was marred with COVID-19.
Yet the Indian cricket board managed to conduct three seasons of IPL 2022 with two season being also shifted to the United Arab Emirates after a few COVID cases emerged in the franchises' bio-bubbles. While the tournament returned to India this year, it was not the traditional home-and-away format that could make a return next year, as claimed by Ganguly himself.
Meanwhile, there was also the controversy around the unceremonious way in which Virat Kohli was removed as the captain and while the Board has maintained that their point of view was communicated to the star batter, Kohli had claimed otherwise in his statement.