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Sourav Ganguly Shares His Thought on Ravi Shastri’s Re-appointment
By Shruti - Oct 20, 2019 12:37 pm
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Newly appointed BCCI President Sourav Ganguly certainly doesn’t share the best relations with Team India head coach Ravi Shastri, but the former India captain has said that there shouldn’t be a re-appointment of the head coach.

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Ravi Shastri

“I don’t think so that it will jeopardize the selection of Shastri. I am not sure though. Even we had selected the coach when there was this conflict issue,” Sourav Ganguly said.

While Ganguly was asked whether he has talked to the head coach yet, he had a great answer which made everyone laugh on Sunday.

“Why? What has he done now?” Sourav Ganguly smiled and asked.

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However, Committee of Administrators (CoA) chief Vinod Rai earlier made it clear that he wouldn’t like to comment on whether Ravi Shastri would need to be re-appointed if they are found guilty of conflict.

“Firstly, it is a hypothetical question, and secondly, it is unfair on me to prejudge a decision of the Ethics Officer,” he had earlier told IANS.

“To be honest, I am not against any individual. But even in the case of W.V. Raman’s appointment as the women’s team coach, I had said that the BCCI constitution has no place for an ad-hoc CAC. Similarly, in Shastri’s case also, if the Ethics Officer does rule against the CAC and says there is conflict, the process will automatically have to be redone keeping the rules of the constitution in mind,” Diana Edulji had expressed to IANS.

“Yes, it does. If you remember, the same thing happened in the (Sachin) Tendulkar episode. So, you can say it is a closed chapter,” the functionary had earlier said.