Iyer’s comment has raised an eyebrow among other franchises and even BCCI officials for naming Ganguly among the people who have been helping him and the team this season. “It would have been understandable that Iyer would have given Ganguly credit overall, considering he was there as a mentor with Delhi Capitals until last year. But Iyer specifically mentioned Ganguly as part of the unit that has been helping him this year as well.” franchise owners and others said board members.
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To quote Iyer literally, he said: “As a captain you need a very good temper and I think I have earned it over the years. Obviously when you have people like Ricky Ponting and Sourav Ganguly around you, they do their job it’s easy. “.
That part was perceived as a blanket comment from a player who has mentored many former cricketers in the past, until Iyer added, “And I’m very lucky to have them (Ponting and Ganguly) around me right now.”
Board members say it doesn’t bode well for the BCCI president to be seen so closely associated with a particular franchise.
Eyebrows were last raised when JSW Cement, a subsidiary of the JSW Group, joined Ganguly as the company’s brand ambassador in June this year, once again fueling the long-standing debate on multiple conflict areas in which is the former captain of India. wrapped in.
“Iyer is a cricketer. He talks about cricket. He did nothing wrong by expressing how the team has been preparing well for the season. It is the franchise and the responsibility of the BCCI to investigate these areas that BCCI and IPL do not really show with good light, “said follow-up developments.
For quite some time, the IPL fraternity has been rife with “gossip,” linking Ganguly’s close ties to JSW and Delhi Capitals. JSW Group, for the record, owns 50% of the franchise and the other 50% belongs to the GMR Group, which first bought the Delhi franchise in 2008.
The understanding between the two co-owners is that JSW will manage the franchise for two years and GMR for the next two years and so on. Based on this understanding, the GMR Group will take control of the franchise for the 2021 and 2022 seasons.
Going back to Ganguly, the other partnerships of the BCCI president, with fantasy sports platform MyCircle11 and e-learning startup Unacademy, have consistently raised concerns as well. MyCircle11, for which Ganguly is doing commercials to promote the gaming platform during the IPL, is a direct rival to IPL’s title sponsor, Dream11. Unacademy is the direct rival of team India jersey sponsor Byju.
“In that way, even JSW Cement is a rival to one of the sponsors of Indian cricket, Ambuja Cement,” add industry executives.
On September 1, conflict of interest plaintiff Sanjeev Gupta had filed a complaint under BCCI Rule 39 (2) (b) against Ganguly for violating Rule 38 (4) with the Board’s Ethics Officer and had subpoenaed the partnership between Ganguly and JSW Cement.
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