There is something deceptive about people wanting you to believe in the larger story — they tend to conceal how much they want to tell you their part of it. That is likely to become increasingly clear as an assertive Sourav Ganguly takes over as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India today. Besides that, diarchy, or dual power centres, in Indian cricket seems a possibility in the months to come.
Unlike the Committee of Administrators, the Ganguly-led BCCI — reconstituted after fresh elections — isn’t expected to give the off-field a free run of Virat Kohli’s on-field leadership. Ganguly is a former skipper with a stature only few have managed in recent decades, while Kohli is a reigning youth icon, an all-time batting great who is riding high on superstardom. With Ganguly now at the helm of the BCCI, dual power centres is likely to be a talking point with both.
