Internet Desk: India legend Sunil Gavaskar feels that former Indian Captain Sourav Ganguly is the right man to take the charge as the interim President of BCCI.
On the verdict of the RM Lodha committee, the honourary Supreme Court sacked BCCI President Anurag Thakur and Secretary Ajay Shirke from their respective posts.
The Supreme cricketing body of India is thus going through an abrupt problem of lack of leadership recently.
Following the duo’s ouster, various names have cropped up to take over the reigns of the national cricket board.
Since the sacking of the duo, many names including that of Ganguly — the current Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) President have been doing the rounds to succeed Thakur on an interim basis.
Ganguly also fits the bill as the Lodha Committee, in its initial recommendations, had stressed that former players should administer the BCCI.
“BCCI has got very good bench strength to take up the bigger roles and one name that comes to my mind is Sourav Ganguly,” Gavaskar was quoted as saying by the media.
“Remember, in 1999-2000 when Indian cricket was gripped by the match-fixing saga, Ganguly was given the Indian team captaincy and he turned it around,” the diminutive former opener added.
A bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud in their order said that as an interim arrangement, the senior most Vice President of the BCCI would act as the President and the Joint Secretary would be the Secretary.
Ganguly, however is not a vice-president and would even complete a three-year tenure in office in CAB and hence could be ineligible for the post.
With inputs from IANS.