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DC Edit | WC champ in BCCI hot seat

The contrast in the personalities of the outgoing president of the BCCI, Sourav Ganguly and the incoming candidate in the former cricketer, Roger Michael Humphrey Binny, could not have been starker. Ganguly was restoring an old tradition of Test cricketers graduating into cricket admin after the Maharajkumar of Vizianagaram and then Shivlal Yadav, who became an interim BCCI president for technical reasons when the Supreme Court chose to intervene. Its most modern avatar as an admin powerhouse in world cricket and recipient of billions of dollars in TV and digital rights revenues, lends BCCI’s honorary posts greater lustre. Binny gets a top post without hankering for it and it is on the cards that he will prove a sane voice in matters to do with taking Indian cricket forward.

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