Published 15:19 IST, October 24th 2019
Kidambi Srikanth congratulates Sourav Ganguly on his new role
Kidambi Srikanth has congratulated Sourav Ganguly on social media after his appointment as the BCCI President. Dada assumed charge as the 39th BCCI President.
Kidambi Srikanth is one of India's finest badminton players in both singles as well as doubles competition. Srikanth is one of the potential talents to have come out of the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad which was founded by the iconic shuttler Pullela Gopichand. The other star players to have come out of that academy included the Olympians Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu. Srikanth was also conferred with the Padma Shri award in 2018. Meanwhile, Kidambi Srikanth has come forward to congratulate Sourav Ganguly on social media.
Srikanth congratulates Dada
In a historic development and the first time involving an established Indian cricketer, Sourav Ganguly has been appointed as the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The development was well received by the fans and cricket fraternity. It seems that even the members of the sports fraternity are coming forward to congratulate Dada and one of them is Kidambi Srikanth. Taking to the micro-blogging site, Srikanth wrote that Sourav Ganguly is a very well deserved candidate for this post.
Read Srikanth's tweet here:
Sourav Ganguly dismisses need for dual captaincy
The newly-elected BCCI President did away with the question of dual captaincy for India and backed current skipper Virat Kohli to be able to carry on with the job effectively. Responding to a reporter's query, Sourav Ganguly said the question of replacing Virat Kohli as the skipper does not arise as India has been in fine form and has had a winning run. Split captaincy has been advocated by many former cricketers and Indian fans, who believe that Rohit Sharma will be able to lead the side in the shorter formats of the game while Virat Kohli could lead the Test side. However, in sync with the selectors and the coach, Sourav Ganguly has also agreed that Virat Kohli is the best man for the job and that the need for split captaincy is not required at the moment.
Updated 16:17 IST, October 24th 2019