Kolkata: Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly on Sunday began a new innings as a cricket administrator — with his unanimous election to the joint secretary’s post at the Cricket Association of Bengal’s 83rd annual general meeting here.
At the helm since 1993, barring the period when he was expelled from the BCCI, Jagmohan Dalmiya was also unanimously re-elected as CAB president. Forced to resign December 2006 following his expulsion from the BCCI on embezzlement charges, the former ICC president Dalmiya had made an incredible comeback to the CAB humbling incumbent Prasun Mukherjee in the 2008 elections.
The AGM virtually saw the annihilation of the opposition faction in the CAB.
Ganguly’s advent in a new avatar was welcomed by cricket administrators and the playing fraternity.
Welcoming Ganguly into full-time cricket administration, Dalmiya said he was looking forward to work with him as a team.
“When I was the BCCI president, he was the captain. As a team we did well. And I hope this team will again do a great job,” he said.
The 42-year-old Ganguly, however, was not present at the AGM as he is away in England doing television commentary for the India-England series.
