In a change of guard in the Indian cricket board, former allrounder Roger Binny is likely to replace ex-skipper Sourav Ganguly as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president, media reports said.
Ganguly, who has been allowed by the Supreme Court recently to continue to run the top post, has reportedly turned down the offer to become the Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman after he was denied a second term.
BCCI secretary Jay Shah, the second most important person on the board, is likely to remain in his post.
Binny, who was a part of the 1983 World Cup winning team, is likely to get elected to the top post unopposed.
He filed his nomination papers Tuesday, reports said.
Meanwhile, BCCI treasurer Arun Dhumal is set to become the new IPL chairman replacing Brijesh Patel.
Ganguly’s likely exit from the world’s richest cricket board has triggered a war of words between the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC), which runs the outgoing BCCI chief’s home state West Bengal.
Ganguly’s appointment as the BJP chief in 2019 had triggered massive speculations over his joining in the BJP before the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections, where the saffron camp threw everything to defeat Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s TMC.
Even in the recent past, Union Home Minister and BJP top leader Amit Shah paid a visit to Ganguly’s Behala residence in Kolkata.
