Sourav Ganguly: Can’t play forever

Sourav Ganguly during a promotional event in Kolkata yesterday. Pic/AFP

Amid the chatter around his imminent departure from the BCCI, board president Sourav Ganguly on Thursday said he "can't be an administrator forever" and "rejections" are part of life.

The former India captain is set to be replaced as board president by 1983 World Cup winning-team member Roger Binny in the apex body's upcoming AGM (Annual general Meeting).

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‘It's been fun'

"You can't play forever. You can't be an administrator forever, but it's been fun doing both and seeing both sides of the coin. I will go for bigger things in future," Ganguly said on the sidelines a promotional event here on Thursday.

"I was a cricketer's administrator. Yes, you had to make decisions because there's so much cricket happening, there's so much money around. There's women's cricket, there's domestic cricket. Yes, you had to take calls at times as an individual," he added. Ganguly was keen to continue as the BCCI chief, but things did not pan out that way, even as Jay Shah is set to continue as the secretary. "For me, life is about faith. Everybody gets tested, everybody gets rewarded, everybody gets rejected. Because that's the circle of life, but what remains constant is the faith in your ability which keeps you going," he said.

TMC accuses BJP

After his name did not feature among options for the top post during a meeting of senior administrators with political clout in New Delhi last week, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) accused the BJP of "trying to humiliate" the former India skipper for not joining the party. "Since the BJP floated such propaganda during and after the 2021 polls, it will surely be the responsibility of the party to respond to such speculations [that politics is behind Ganguly not getting a second term as BCCI chief]. It seems the BJP is trying to humiliate Sourav," TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said.

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