Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president and former Indian cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly will be discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, Dr Rupali Basu, MD and CEO, Woodlands Hospital said on Tuesday, reported ANI. Ganguly underwent angioplasty after suffering a mild heart attack on Saturday.
“BCCI President Sourav Ganguly to be discharged from the hospital tomorrow and will be monitored at home on a daily basis,” Basu said.
“Sourav Ganguly will be ready for the next course of procedures or medical intervention after about 2-3 weeks,” the doctor added.
The 48-year-old, who heads the country’s powerful cricket board, complained about chest pain during his morning exercise session on Saturday.
He was immediately rushed to Woodlands hospital in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state, where doctors found three blockages in his arteries, one of which needed a stent implant.
Ganguly was unanimously elected president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the sport’s most powerful body in the country, in 2019.
The left-handed opener retired from Test cricket in 2008 having accumulated 7,212 runs including 16 centuries — his first made at Lord’s on debut.
He also scored 11,363 runs in 311 one-day internationals.