Sourav Ganguly says BCCI monitoring scenario in Sri Lanka forward of Asia Cup: Let us look ahead to a month

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has mentioned that the board is presently monitoring the scenario in Sri Lanka forward of this 12 months’s Asia Cup.

Sourav Ganguly mentioned that BCCI is presently monitoring the scenario in Sri Lanka (Courtesy: Reuters)

HIGHLIGHTSThe financial and political disaster in Sri Lanka has put a query mark over this 12 months’s Asia CupThe match is scheduled to begin on twenty eighth AugustGanguly opened up on India’s possibilities on the T20 World Cup

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has claimed that the board are presently monitoring the scenario in Sri Lanka forward of the Asia Cup because the island nation has been gripped by financial and political disaster.

The Asia Cup is scheduled to begin on twenty eighth August of this 12 months and can go on till the eleventh of September. However, the present scenario in Sri Lanka has put an enormous query mark over the match’s clean conduct.

Ganguly, whereas talking to ANI, mentioned that BCCI are monitoring the scenario within the island nation and mentioned that they may look ahead to a month and see.

“I cannot comment at the moment (about the possibility of India hosting the event). We will keep monitoring (the situation in Sri Lanka). Australia is playing there. The Sri Lankan team is also doing well. I cannot comment at the moment. Let us wait for a month,” mentioned Ganguly.

India can be participating in two main ICC occasions within the close to future. The first one is the T20 World Cup set to happen in Australia and the opposite one being the 50-over World Cup hosted by India.

Speaking in regards to the excessive expectations from the Indian group in each tournaments, Ganguly mentioned that it is not attainable to win ICC tournaments on a regular basis. He mentioned that the present squad accommodates some unbelievable gamers and the group will carry out properly in Australia.

“You do not win ICC tournaments all the time. They (India) were in the finals of the Champions Trophy in 2017 and they lost in the semis in the 2019 WC. It has not been that they have been absolutely poor in World Cups but as you rightly said whenever India plays the expectations are more of winning. They are a great side they have some fantastic players and hopefully, when it comes to Australia this time, they will stand up and deliver,” mentioned Ganguly.

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