Sourav Ganguly, Mohammad Azharuddin feature in BCCI elections shortlist

ESPN Cricinfo reported that the published electoral roll also has the names of Jay Shah (Gujarat Cricket Association secretary and son of India's Home Minister Amit Shah), Arun Dhumal (president Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association and brother of former BCCI president Anurag Thakur), Rajeev Shukla (former IPL chairman), Rajat Sharma (Delhi Districts Cricket Association president) and Jaydev Shah (Saurashtra Cricket Association president and son former BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah). The election will be held on October 23 - the same date that the CoA would demit themselves post the AGM - and state representatives would select the board members.

However, before that, this list of 38 representatives would be vetted by the BCCI's electoral officer N Gopalswami who will release the final electoral list on October 10 when the state associations would then have to send in names from that final electoral list of representatives to contest various positions at the BCCI elections. On October 16, the BCCI would release the final list of candidates along with the positions they would be contesting on the final date.

Currently, Ganguly has been re-elected as the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal and had already attended a BCCI AGM previously. But he has never contested the BCCI elections and it remains to be seen whether he would actually be interested considering the BCCI's new constitution doesn't allow anyone a more than three-year tenure at a stretch, which would mean Ganguly will have to leave the post 10 months from now.