Mumbai: Pune franchise representative Subroto Talukdar rebuffed the murmurs of Sourav Ganguly’s possible conflict of interest in Sanjeev Goenka-owned New Rising Pune on Tuesday following the IPL players’ draft in Mumbai.
After industrialist Goenka's company New Rising bought the bid for Pune team, questions on potential Conflict of Interest were raised as Ganguly is an IPL Governing Council member as well as co-owner of Indian Super League (ISL) football team Atletico de Kolkata.
Earlier, Goenka had told PTI, “Ganguly is not involved, that’s for sure. This is entirely mine. It’s 100 per cent owned by me. It’s me and my group of companies.”
Read: Sourav Ganguly not involved with Pune, says Sanjeev Goenka
Talukdar echoed Goenka’s view about former India cricketer’s ‘no role’ with the new IPL unit. “Ganguly was not a part of the think tank,” said Talukdar.
He did not stretch the Ganguly matter, rather, he discussed the group’s strategy ahead of the draft and how some other cricketers were consulted.
Read: There's no conflict of interest for Sourav Ganguly
“We had a clear cut strategy and Mahendra Singh Dhoni was an automatic choice. He is the best person to build a brand,” he said.
“We employ a group of cricketers including Manoj Tiwary, Ashok Dinda and Wriddhiman Saha and we consulted them,” added Talukdar.
He was quick to add that the trio play for different IPL sides and hence, there was no conflict of interest.
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