{"id":3866,"date":"2022-06-12T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T09:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=227978"},"modified":"2022-06-12T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T09:06:20","slug":"this-game-is-run-by-the-fans-bcci-president-sourav-ganguly-claims-on-ipl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/this-game-is-run-by-the-fans-bcci-president-sourav-ganguly-claims-on-ipl\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThis game is run by the fans\u2026\u201d \u2013 BCCI president Sourav Ganguly claims on IPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Sourav+Ganguly\">Sourav Ganguly<\/a>, President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=BCCI\">Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)<\/a>, has stated that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=IPL\">Indian Premier League (IPL)<\/a> earns more revenue than that of the English Premier League (EPL) during an India Leadership Council event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen the game evolve, where players like me earned a few hundreds and now have the potential of earning crores. This game is run by the fans, by the people of this country, and by the BCCI, which was formed by cricket fans. This sport is strong and will continue to evolve. The IPL generates more revenue than the English Premier League. It makes me feel happy and proud that the sport I love has evolved to become so strong,\u201d during an interaction with Deepak Lamba, CEO, Worldwide Media, President, Times Strategic Solutions Limited, Ganguly stated at an India Leadership Council event.<\/p>\n<p>Ganguly was asked regarding his leadership style during the event, on which, he stated that, \u201cCaptaincy, to me, is leading a team on the ground, and leadership, to me, is building a team. So, whether I worked with Sachin, Azhar, or Dravid, I didn\u2019t compete with them; instead, I collaborated with them as leaders and shared responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At the ETILC 'Unleashing The Secrets of Supremacy \u2013 Leadership Strategies From the Cricket Field To The Boardroom' in association with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HSBC_IN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HSBC_IN<\/a>., Sourav Ganguly talks about the common thread between leadership tactics in a boardroom & on a playing field. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l29aGaYgUh\">pic.twitter.com\/l29aGaYgUh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 India Leadership Council \u2013 ILC | The Times Group (@ILCbyTimesGroup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ILCbyTimesGroup\/status\/1535171730146459648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourav Ganguly, a former India captain and present BCCI President, claims that the IPL brings in more revenue than the English Premier League (EPL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[407],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-indian-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}