Former captain of the Indian cricket team Sourav Ganguly has been elected president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB). He was in this post till 2019, after 6 years he has been appointed to this post again. Ganguly also held the post of President of BCCI from 2019 to 2022. After becoming CAB President, he said to increase the capacity of Eden Gardens Stadium to 1 lakh on Monday. He also included the hosting of important matches of the T20 World Cup in his priorities.

Sourav Ganguly was elected unopposed the next president at the 94th annual general meeting of the Cricket Association of Bengal on Monday. He has been the CAB President from 2015 to 2019, he left the post before becoming BCCI President. After which Aishtek Dalmiya became the new president.

Sourav Ganguly again became president

Ganguly has promised that the return of Test cricket at Eden Gardens will ensure smoothly. Let us know that in October, Bengal team will play 2 matches of Ranji Trophy with Uttarakhand and Gujarat. Tests will be played between India and South Africa here in November.

After being appointed to the post, Ganguly said that his first responsibility will have to be prepared for India vs South Africa Test. After the pink ball test against Bangladesh in 2019, there will be the first Test here. The day and night test started with a pink ball in India while holding the post of president of Sourav Ganguly.

Ganguly said, “This will be a good test, because South Africa has recently become the World Test Champion by defeating Australia in the final. Everything exists in the Eden Gardens Stadium. Good pitches, good fans and infrastructure are also good. Both India and South Africa are good teams, so I am sure that it will be a good test.”

Ganguly will represent Cab in BCCI meeting

Sourav Ganguly told that he will be discussed soon with the new team members of BCCI. Ganguly said, “I will talk to the BCCI. They are not even members. I wish the new BCCI president.

The annual general meeting of BCCI will be held on 28 September. Ganguly will represent CAB in this. On increasing the capacity of Eden Gardens Stadium, Ganguly said that it will be only after next year’s T20 World Cup. it will take time.

Former captain of the Indian cricket team and former BCCI President Sourav Ganguly can once again return to the cricket administration. According to a media report, Ganguly can be elected President of Cricket Association of Bengal for the second time. Ganguly’s first term as the President of CAB ran till 2015-2019. Right now Sourav’s brother Snehashish Ganguly is present on the post of president, but very soon the news of changing the president has come out.

According to Cricblogger, Ganguly is going to become the President of the Cricket Association of Bengal again. After finishing his first term in 2019, Ganguly took over as BCCI President in the same year. After Ganguly, the post was handled by Avishek Dalmia, son of former BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmia, who remained in the post till 2022. At the same time, after 2022, Snehashish Ganguly remains in this post.

No information has been revealed on whether any other candidate will present the challenge in front of Sourav Ganguly for the post of President. Ganguly is less likely to challenge because CAB has tried to bring him with him earlier, which had failed.

As a BCCI president Sourav Ganguly’s term was full. Meanwhile, the news of his rift with Virat Kohli was at its peak, at the same time Virat left the captaincy of the Test team. Until Ganguly’s term went on, the Indian team could not win the T20 World Cup twice and lost in the final of the World Test Championship.

If Sourav Ganguly is again elected as the President of the Cricket Association of Bengal, he will have to leave the Delhi Capitals in the IPL. Ganguly has held the post of Director of Cricket in Delhi Capitals, but before IPL 2025, this post was taken by Venugopal Rao. He has worked with Pretoria Capitals in the SA20 with being the director of cricket of the Delhi Capitals team in WPL.

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