KOLKATA (India): Indian cricket legend Sourav Ganguly was rushed to hospital Saturday where he underwent a heart operation, doctors said.
The 48-year-old, who now heads the country’s cricket board, suffered a heart attack while exercising at his personal gym in the morning and was immediately taken to Woodlands hospital in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state.
“Sourav Ganguly has undergone an angioplasty and he is completely stable now,” doctor Saroj Mandal told reporters.
Jay Shah, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), said he had spoken to Ganguly’s family, and he was “stable and is responding well to the treatment”.
In 2019, Ganguly was unanimously elected president of the BCCI, the sport’s most powerful body.
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 his debut.
He also scored 11,363 runs in 311 one-day internationals.
