KOLKATA: Sourav Ganguly was known to create a buzz on the field either with his bat or his leadership skills during his playing days. He continues to do so well after leaving the field.
Around 30 years after starting his international cricketing journey in 1992, he can cause wild speculations with a seemingly innocuous tweet. "Planning to start something that I feel will probably help a lot of people," his tweet on Wednesday evening was enough to fan rumours of his resignation at the BCCI president.
It needed the BCCI secretary Jay Shah's word to put them to rest. "The rumours doing rounds about Mr Sourav Ganguly stepping down from the post of BCCI president are factually incorrect," Shah was quoted as saying.
Ganguly was elected the BCCI chief in October 2019 and he still has four more months left in his three-year tenure.
That Ganguly, in the tweet, thanked everyone who has been part of his cricketing journey, spiced up the rumours. "2022 marks the 30th year since the start of my journey with cricket in 1992. Since then, cricket has given me a lot. Most importantly, it has given me the support of all of you. I want to thank every single person, who has been part of the journey, supported me, and helped me reach where I am today," he wrote in a brief statement.
Speculations of Ganguly joining politics were doing the rounds since the last West Bengal Assembly election in 2021. It was learnt Ganguly, who recently bought a new house at the heart of the city, will be launching an educational app and Wednesday's tweet was a teaser to that. Ganguly was earlier keen to start a school in the city which could not see the light of the day after residents objected, fearing traffic congestion in the area since another school is located nearby.
