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Sourav Ganguly has become the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal after 6 years. He was elected unopposed at the 94th annual meeting in Kolkata. During his tenure, Ganguly has targeted to reach the audience capacity of Eden Gardens Stadium to 1 lakh. Right now it is 68 thousand. For this, work will start after the upcoming T20 World Cup. According to Ganguly, his effort will be that Kolkata also got hosting big matches in this mega event. Ganguly has also been the President of the Sangh between 2015 and 2019.
Ganguly’s cricket career was about 16 years old
He was the President of BCCI from 2019 to 2022 Even before this, Ganguly has been the CAB president from 2015 to 2019. After this he was the BCCI President from 2019 to 2022. Since then, he has been associated with several teams in the T20 franchise circuit. He became the chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee in 2021. He was appointed to the post in place of Anil Kumble.
Ganguly was also part of the coach -choosing committee. In 2017, Ganguly was a member of the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) to choose Ravi Shastri as head coach, including Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman.
Recently, the head coach of Pretoria Capitals has been made for the fourth season of Ganguly SA20. He was also present at the SA20 auction last week. This is his first term as the head coach of a T20 franchise team. However, he has also been a Mentor of Delhi Capitals (DC) in IPL.
Ganguly’s cricket career was about 16 years old
Ganguly made his ODI debut against the West Indies in 1992 and made a brilliant innings of 131 runs in 1996, making a Test debut at the Lord’s ground. Ganguly scored 7,212 runs in 113 Tests in his international career and 11,363 runs in 311 ODIs. He scored 16 centuries in Tests and 22 centuries in ODIs. His best score in ODI was 183 runs, which he made against Sri Lanka in the 1999 World Cup.
He became the captain of India in the year 2000. Under Ganguly’s captaincy, India won several historical Test matches abroad and traveled to the 2003 World Cup final. Won the NatWest Trophy at Lord’s in 2002. He retired from international cricket in 2008.
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