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Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has revealed that he used to think earlier that Jai Shah will be a strict and stubborn person. But he was wrong. Jai was quite honest.
How was the former captain’s relationship with Jai Shah.
New Delhi. Former Chairman of the Cricket Board of India (BCCI), Sourav Ganguly revealed that he expected the then secretary of the board and currently the International Cricket Council (ICC) President Jai Shah to “a special kind of strictness and stubbornness” but he was influenced by his “honesty” and ways to organize his “honesty” and things. He said this in an interview.
This was the first time when both Ganguly and Shah were in a position together in BCCI. Earlier, Ganguly was the president of the Bengal Cricket Association while Shah was an officer in the Gujarat Cricket Association. Ganguly and Shah were the world’s richest cricket board from October 2019 to September 2022. This was a period of Kovid-19 epidemic due to which sports activities came to a standstill for a few months.
In 2022, another former Test player Roger Binny was appointed as the chairman of BCCI in place of Ganguly, while Shah remained secretary till November 2024. After this he became the youngest president of ICC at the age of 36. When asked about the mutual relationship between the heir of a political family and a famous cricket star, Ganguly said that there were cordial relations between them which are still intact today.
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