Former Indian skipper, Sourav Ganguly has officially begun his new innings as the 39th president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday. Ganguly was the only candidate to file his nomination for the head of the board after being unanimously chosen as the presidential candidate at a meeting earlier this month.
In the new administration, Home Minister Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah will be donning as the secretary of the board while former president Anurag Thakur’s brother Arun Singh Dhumal became the new treasurer. Kerala’s veteran administrator Jayesh George was named the joint secretary while Mahim Verma of Uttarakhand became the new vice-president.
It's official – @SGanguly99 formally elected as the President of BCCI pic.twitter.com/Ln1VkCTyIW
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The incoming of Ganguly’s team will mean the end to the reign of the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) – led by Vinod Rai – who oversaw the functioning of BCCI for almost three years.
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Talking about her term, Diana Edulji told reporters, “It was a good experience and a long journey, didn’t think that the journey would last so long, but I am happy with the end result that elections and office-bearers are coming back and BCCI will be run by them now.”
With the conflict of interest rules in place, Ganguly will face the challenge of bringing quality cricketers on board as far as the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) and national selection committees are concerned.
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Ganguly’s take on veteran MS Dhoni’s international future, Day/Night Test cricket, permanent Test centers will also be dissected. His tenure begins at a time when the International Cricket Council (ICC) has left India out of its newly-formed working group, which might affect the India’s share in the ICC revenue.
The group has been formed to figure out a new governance structure for the world body.
