Sourav Ganguly's sister-in-law, her parents test positive for coronavirus: Report

Former Indian cricket captain and current BCCI President Sourav Ganguly's family members have tested positive for coronavirus. Sourav Ganguly's elder bror Snehashish Ganguly's wife along with her parents have been infected by COVID-19. A domestic help at Snehasish's Mominpur home where he was living recently, was also found to be positive, an official said. y are currently being treated at a private nursing home and are reported to be in stable condition.

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Sourav Ganguly's kin tests positive for COVID 19

On or hand, Snehashish Ganguly, who is also  secretary of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), has tested negative for virus and been advised home isolation. According to Business Insider India, a senior official said that all four complained of some health issues, which were similar to symptoms of COVID-19 when y were staying at ar residence and t at Sourav Ganguly’s ancestral house in Behala. After testing positive, all four were shifted to a private nursing home.

Sourav Ganguly has been at forefront of helping needy in pandemic situation. In March, southpaw donated rice worth ₹50 lakh for underprivileged. He followed it up by giving away 2000 kgs of rice at Belur Math, headquarters of Ramkrishna Mission in West Bengal.

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Sourav Ganguly also pledged to feed 10,000 people daily at ISKCON Centre. He had also offered iconic Eden Gardens to West Bengal government for quarantine activity at present point in time. Sourav Ganguly also had an online discussion with Hourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding COVID-19 situation.

Sourav Ganguly optimistic about commencement of IPL 2020

Recently, it was learnt that Sourav Ganguly has written to state associations and talked about 'trying all possibilities' to host IPL 2020 this year. Sourav Ganguly shared a letter with all affiliated members of body in country talking about IPL 2020. In that, he said that BCCI is looking for every option to organize T20 tournament this year. He also added that it doesn’t matter if y had to st whole league behind closed doors as well.

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letter mentioned that fans, franchises, players, broadcasters, sponsors and all or stakeholders are keenly looking forward to possibility of IPL 2020 being hosted this year. Recently, a lot of players, both from India and or countries, participating in  IPL 2020 have also shown ir interest in being a part of this year's tournament. So, y are optimistic and BCCI will shortly decide on future course of action on this. Sourav Ganguly's statement gave fans a ray of hope who erly looking forward to commencement of IPL 2020.

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