First few months will be spent doing damage control, reveals Sourav Ganguly
Despite running against the time, Sourav Ganguly has stated that the first three-four months of his tenure as BCCI president will be spent doing damage control. The former Indian skipper has also added that he will use his own way of administration and the effort will be a non-compromising one.
After being elected as the president of the BCCI, Sourav Ganguly's major work will be to get the house in order. Even though he has a maximum of 10 months of tenure when he will have to vacate the role to go for a mandatory cooling-off period, Ganguly stated that first three-four months of his tenure as BCCI president will be spent doing damage control.
"There's a lot of work to be done. I think 10 months is a lot of time. I will sit with the team - Jay (Shah), Arun (Dhumal) and Jayesh (George) - and take it forward. A lot of clean-up needs to be done and several things need to be understood, especially what has happened in the last three years. It was like an emergency in the last three years and we will have to get everything back in order. We will have to make all the team members stay together and take Indian cricket forward. The first three-four months will probably be spent doing damage control," Ganguly told the Times of India.
Many perceived Ganguly's tenure will be the same as the former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya, a period in Indian cricket that saw massive financial growth. Ganguly, however, quashed that by saying he will have his own way of administering the board.
"My cricketing days cannot be compared with any other position or feeling. It is probably because of my cricketing glories that I got this opportunity to serve Indian cricket. Both have their own challenges and demand different ways of handling things. Dalmiya is a legend and an inspiration, but I have actually not seen him being an administrator from close quarters because I was playing back then. I used to deal with him only on cricketing matters. I will do my work the way I know it. The effort will be a non-compromising one and we will see how it goes," Ganguly added.