UNB, New Delhi :
India’s cricket control board chief Sourav Ganguly, affectionately called ‘Dada’, has been hospitalised after testing positive for Covid.
The 49-year-old former India skipper was rushed to Woodlands hospital, a leading private hospital in the eastern metropolis of Kolkata, on Monday night after his RT-PCR test result came positive, UNB has learnt.
“Saurav displayed mild symptoms of Covid. Anyway, his blood samples will be sent for genome sequencing to ascertain if he has got the new Omicron strain of the virus” a doctor at the hospital told the local media.
On December 24, Sourav attended the premiere of Bengali superstar Dev’s latest film Tonic, where he was photographed with several other celebrities like actress Nusrat Jahan and Bollywood singer Babul Supriyo.
Saurav has, in fact, been hospitalised for the third time this year.
On January 2, Saurav was rushed to Woodlands after he complained of acute chest pain and dizziness while working out at a gym. Later that day, he underwent angioplasty after three tiny blockages were detected in his coronary artery.
Later that month, he had to be rushed to Apollo hospital after he complained of mild chest pain. Subsequently, he underwent another angioplasty surgery at the hospital.
Considered one of the best captains in international cricket, Saurav quit the game in 2008 but continued playing in the multi-billion-dollar cricketing tournament Indian Premier League for a few more years.
He scored more than 18,500 runs in Tests and one-day internationals. Last year, Dada was elected as the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the world’s richest cricketing body.
