As much as it is about winning and losing, sport is also about nostalgia. As he entered a jam-packed conference room at the Cricket Centre — for the second time, with a young team of newly elected apex council members accompanying him — Sourav Ganguly turned the clock back almost two decades.
Sporting the India blazer — he revealed it was the same that was presented to him when he was elevated to India captaincy in 2000 — Ganguly occupied his chair. And as he took centrestage, the four chairs that had been arranged for the other officebearers were quickly pulled out.
One couldn’t help but sense that the second India captain to become a BCCI president would continue to steal the limelight, just like he did during his stint as India skipper.
Vision statement
For the next 25 minutes, Ganguly spelt out his vision for what could well be just a 10-month tenure as BCCI president.
He related taking over a muddled BCCI administration to him taking over as captain in the aftermath of the match-fixing scandal.
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