Sourav Ganguly to represent CAB in BCCI AGM on October 23

Incumbent Sourav Ganguly was, on Thursday, named the president of Cricket Association of Bengal without any contest as do the other five office-bearers. Ganguly had been a joint secretary of Cricket Association of Bengal from 2014 and will have to go on a mandatory 'cooling-off' period of three years after completing six years in office at a stretch in July 2020. As a result, the former India skipper will remain president of the CAB for the next 10 months.

However, that won't hinder Ganguly from attending the AGM on October 23, the same date the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of administrators would demit at the office. In the CAB AGM, Ganguly's name was passed after five years where the former India skipper assumed the office of CAB's president for the second time uncontested.

In the AGM, it has also been decided that Ganguly's brother Snehasish Ganguly along with former Indian women cricketer Gargi Banerjee would comprise the Apex Council as the former cricketer while former chief justice of the Allahabad High Court Justice (retd) Shyamal Sen was appointed CAB's Ombudsman while Justice (retd) Aloke Chakravarti was appointed the ethics officer.

"It will be easier operating this time. For the last few years, we did not have full office-bearers due to different legal issues. It was difficult to run such a huge association with so few people," Ganguly said coming out of the meeting.