BCCI guidelines out Sourav Ganguly for ICC chairmanship, board to again present chief Greg Barclay

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has made it clear that it’s going to again the present International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Greg Barclay to retain the publish and the Indian board won’t be endorsing Sourav Ganguly’s identify for a similar. The BCCI consultant for ICC and CEC, AGM has given powers to workplace bearers to resolve on the identical.

As reported by Indian Express earlier, the one large level of hypothesis is who the 2 BCCI representatives can be on the ICC. While Jay Shah is predicted to be India’s consultant on the ICC Board conferences, the BCCI has made it clear now that it’s going to give the ICC chairmanship a miss and again a second time period for New Zealand’s Greg Barclay.

Earlier on Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee waded into the controversy surrounding Sourav Ganguly’s impending exit from the Indian cricket board, saying she is going to request Prime Minister Narendra Modi to permit the previous India cricketer and BCCI chief to contest for the place of ICC chairperson.

Ganguly is a broadly common determine in West Bengal and his removing from the BCCI has led to a political slugfest between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP. The CPI(M) and the Congress have additionally questioned Ganguly’s impending exit from the cricket physique. Non-BJP events have alleged that the previous cricketer needed to pay the value for saying no to becoming a member of the BJP.

Last 12 months, Ganguly’s identify made the rounds in political circles as a possible BJP chief ministerial candidate if the celebration received the Assembly polls. At the time, the TMC additionally reportedly tried to get Ganguly to hitch it. Sources near the previous cricket captain stated he felt super stress from each side within the run-up to the polls and subsequently determined to not make the leap into politics. On May 7, Ganguly hosted a dinner at his Kolkata residence for Amit Shah. That triggered a contemporary spherical of hypothesis.