In the past, Sourav Ganguly’s trips to the Wankhede Stadium would see him disembark from the team bus and drag his kitbag to the dressing room. But on Wednesday, on his 37th birthday, ironically in the morning when media reports saw him as the BCCI president in 2014, he was at the Cricket Centre rubbing shoulders with the suits who run the game in the country. While attending his first BCCI technical committee meeting, Ganguly looked comfortable with the flannels-to-formals switch.

After discussing the Indian domestic circuit for a couple of hours, with Sunil Gavaskar at the head of the table, Ganguly had an interaction with the media in which the questions weren’t about his cricketing or leadership skills, but life beyond the boundary line.

“I have stopped playing cricket six months ago. I want to be connected to cricket. Bengal has a lot of talent and I want to take care of it,” he said, when asked if he would enter the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) as a rival to its president Jagmohan Dalmiya.

“I will take it one step at a time and see where it goes,” he added, not declining to comment but not revealing much either.

‘Not this year’

Back home in Kolkata, however, his brother Snehashis said that Sourav would not enter the CAB fray, at least this year. “I don’t think he will be contesting this year. If that would have been case, it would have been known to us. But eventually he would get into cricket administration,” Snehashis told The Indian Express.

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