Sourav Ganguly Reveals Thoughts On His Term As BCCI President Ending This Year

Sourav Ganguly took office as BCCI president on October 23, 2019. He took some valuable decision as the BCCI chief and pioneered the pink-ball Test in the country. Ganguly, however, will be able to serve as BCCI president only up to September 2020, as he is currently the president of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) and will have to go into a compulsory cooling off period.

According to the BCCI constitution based on justice RM Lodha committee’s reforms, any person who has been an office-bearer in a state, as well as BCCI for a consecutive period of six years, will have to go for a compulsory cooling-off period of three years.

But, the cricket board had decided to dilute the Lodha Reforms related to the cooling-off period for the office-bearing administrators in the 88th Annual General Meeting (AGM), subject to the Supreme Court (SC) approval.

At the moment courts are closed: Sourav Ganguly

It remains to be seen if the Supreme Court accepts the appeal to revise the cooling-off period. But as situation stands, courts in country are closed due to the pandemic, and Ganguly isnot to bothered about his term as a BCCI president coming to a close. He, however, said it is not in the control of the cricket board and the decision lies in the hands of the court.

“At the moment the courts are closed. So we have no update on that. There is time. And whatever will happen will happen. This is not in our control,” Ganguly told The New Indian Express. 

Ganguly had took over as CAB president in 2015, following the death of his administrative mentor Jagmohan Dalmiya. If the apex accepts the proposal made by the cricket board, to dilute the tenure cap, it will also clear path for BCCI  secretary Jay Shah to be appointed for ICC meet.