{"id":315645,"date":"2019-10-14T04:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T04:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315645"},"modified":"2019-10-14T04:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T04:15:56","slug":"former-indian-captain-sourav-ganguly-set-to-be-named-new-bcci-president-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-indian-captain-sourav-ganguly-set-to-be-named-new-bcci-president-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly set to be named new BCCI President: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315646 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sourav.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/sourav.jpg 552w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/sourav-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/>Former Indian Cricket Captain Sourav Ganguly is likely to be the BCCI\u2019s new President, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is learnt that the BCCI finalised the names of their new members in a meeting in Mumbai on Sunday and former Indian captain emerged as consensus candidate to be BCCI&#8217;s new President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 47-year-old Ganguly who was elected as the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) president last month, will have to demit office in 2020 as he will go into cooling-off period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, Union Home Minister Amit Shah&#8217;s son Jay Shah will be the new secretary while Arun Dhumal will be the new treasurer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">October 14 is the last date to file the nominations. However, no election will be held since all candidates have emerged unopposed, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Indian Cricket Captain Sourav Ganguly is likely to be the BCCI\u2019s new President, sources said. It is learnt that the BCCI finalised the names of their new members in a meeting in Mumbai on Sunday and former Indian captain emerged as consensus candidate to be BCCI&#8217;s new President. The 47-year-old Ganguly who was elected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[2516,11861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315647,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315645\/revisions\/315647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}