BCCI office shut amid COVID-19 outbreak, Sourav Ganguly gets a chance to cool his heels

The BCCI employees have been told to work from home.

By PTI | Mar 19, 2020, 04.20 PM IST

Ganguly himself had indicated that a shortened IPL is a possibility if things improve after April 15.

NEW DELHI: With the IPL postponed to April 15 and the BCCI office shut down in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, board president Sourav Ganguly has got a welcome off day from his busy schedule.

With the sporting world going into a complete shutdown, the ever-busy former India captain got a chance to cool his heels on Wednesday.

"Corona virus scare .. happy to sit in the lounge at 5pm .. free... can't remember when I did last," Ganguly posted on Instagram.

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Amids all the corona virus scare .. happy to sit in the lounge at 5pm .. free... can’t remember when I did last ..

A post shared by SOURAV GANGULY (@souravganguly) on Mar 18, 2020 at 5:06am PDT

The BCCI employees have been told to work from home while there has been no headway about the fate of IPL even though a curtailed one looks imminent if the situation comes under control.

Ganguly himself had indicated that a shortened IPL is a possibility if things improve after April 15.

Ganguly, MSD & Other Skippers With Poor Toss-Winning Records

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Ahead of a T20 game against Sri Lanka last month, the Australian women’s cricket skipper Meg Lanning pulled a bunny out of the hat. She invited her teammate Alyssa Healey to flip the coin at the toss. Reason? Lanning admits to having terrible luck at tosses and here was a trick that was out-of-the-box. It worked as Australia won the toss and the game as well.

It wasn’t for nothing that Richie Benaud said, “Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill.” Although he did add, “Don’t try it without that 10 per cent”.

Here’s looking at some cricket skippers who could have done with such quirky solutions after being poor at winning tosses.

(In pic from left: Sourav Ganguly, Meg Lanning, MS Dhoni)