Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Congratulates BCCI's President-Elect Sourav Ganguly

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee congratulated Sourav Ganguly as the former India captain is set to take over the charge as BCCI’s President on October 23. In her congratulatory tweet, Banerjee wrote that she looks forward to Sourav playing a great innings as BCCI’s President.

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“Heartiest congratulations to @SGanguly99 for being unanimously elected @BCCI President. Wish you all the best for your term. You have made India and #Bangla proud. We were proud of your tenure as CAB President. Looking forward to a great new innings,” she wrote.

Heartiest congratulations to @SGanguly99 for being unanimously elected @BCCI President. Wish you all the best for your term. You have made India and #Bangla proud. We were proud of your tenure as CAB President. Looking forward to a great new innings.

— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) October 14, 2019

Ganguly is all set to be unanimously elected as BCCI’s President as no other official has applied for the post. He, along with N Srinivasan, Niranjan Shah and Rajiv Shukla went to BCCI’s office to file his nomination paper for the top position.

Till the evening on Sunday, former India batsman Brijesh Patel seemed to be the front-runner for the job but Ganguly announced his candidature later in the evening, which sort of confirmed that he will take up the position. It was confirmed earlier today as no other official threw his hat in the ring.

Ganguly, the present President of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), will have to leave his role at Delhi Capitals to be BCCI’s chief. Along with that, he will also have to give up commentary duties – though he is a part-time commentator and only commentates in ICC tournaments.

Ganguly will continue to hold the post till September 2020 and will have then go on a cooling-off period since he was elected as President of CAB in 2015.

A veteran of 113 Tests and 311 OIs, Ganguly made his ODI debut back in 1992. Though he was dropped from the team and had to wait for consistent opportunities. In Tests, he made a brilliant start as he scored a century on his debut at Lord’s in 1996.

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He led India n 49 Test and 146 ODIs. Apart from that, he was also at the helm of affairs when India qualified for the final of World Cup 2003, where they lost to Australia.

Ganguly retired from international cricket in 2008, playing his last Test against Australia. He went onto play for Kolkata Knight Riders and Pune Warriors in IPL. His final appearance in Indian domestic cricket came for Bengal when they defeated Mumbai to win Vijay Hazare trophy in 2011/12.