Sourav Ganguly tests positive for Covid-19, admitted to Kolkata hospital

Ganguly
is
double
vaccinated
and
has
been
travelling
extensively,
taking
part
in
all
professional
activities.

The
49-year-old
was
rushed
to
hospital
late
on
Monday
night
(December
27)
as
a
precautionary
measure
after
his
RT-PCR
test
returned
positive.

“He
was
taken
to
Woodlands
Nursing
Home
on
Monday
night.
He
has
been
given
medication
and
is
currently
stable,”
a
BCCI
source,
who
is
keeping
track
of
Ganguly’s
health,
told
PTI.

Ganguly
was
admitted
to
hospital
twice
earlier
this
year
and
underwent
emergency
angioplasty
after
having
cardiac
issues.

His
elder
brother
Snehashish
Ganguly
had
also
tested
positive
for
Covid
earlier
this
year.

Ganguly
has
been
in
news
in
the
last
month
or
so
after
India
Test
skipper
Virat
Kohli
contradicted
his
claims
of
informing
the
latter
about
change
in
ODI
captaincy.

We
had
requested
Virat
not
to
step
down
as
T20
captain
but
he
didn’t
want
to
continue
as
captain.
So,
the
selectors
felt
that
they
cannot
have
two
white
ball
captains
in
two
white-ball
formats.
That’s
too
much
of
leadership,”
BCCI
president
and
former
India
captain
told
PTI.

Kohli
stepped
down
as
T20
captain
after
India’s
disastrous
World
Cup
campaign
in
October-November.
Ganguly
said
the
selectors
felt
that
multiple
leaders
in
the
white-ball
format
would
lead
to
confusion
and
that’s
why
the
Chetan
Sharma-led
committee
suggested
that
it’s
better
to
have
one
leader.

“I
don’t
know
(about
confusion)
but
that’s
what
they
(selectors)
felt.
That’s
how
this
conclusion
was
arrived
at
–
that
let
Rohit
captain
in
white-ball
and
let
Virat
be
the
red-ball
skipper,”
Ganguly
added.

Ganguly
said
that
he
wouldn’t
like
to
make
any
predictions
abut
Rohit’s
future
but
is
confident
of
the
new
skipper’s
abilities.
“It’s
very
difficult
to
predict.
I
wish
him
all
the
best
and
hope
he
does
a
good
job,”
he
said.
But
was
it
taken
into
consideration
that
Kohli
has
been
a
good
ODI
skipper
with
over
70
per
cent
win
record
in
95
games
that
he
was
in
charge.