IPL over for Sourav Ganguly

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly’s will not be able to play in the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the Governing Council said on Friday.

“Based on the views from Franchisees, IPL Governing Council decided not to make available the unsold Indian Players from the auction,” Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary N Srinivasan, also a member of the Governing Council, said in a statement.

Governing Council, chairman Chirayu Amin said that Ganguly will not be part of IPL-4 following the objection raised by a few franchises to a request from one franchise which was interested in buying the Bengal stalwart outside the auction.

“We had received a request from one franchise (Kochi) that Sourav Ganguly should be allowed to be purchased outside the auction and rejected it after objections were raised by some other franchises,” Amin said.