26 April,2015 08:15 AM IST | | PTI
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has decided to give away his BCCI pension for this year to the deceased under-19 Bengal cricketer Ankit Keshri's family
Ankit Keshri
Kolkata: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has decided to give away his BCCI pension for this year to the deceased under-19 Bengal cricketer Ankit Keshri's family.
Ankit Keshri
Ganguly has also decided to use the pension, which he will be getting in future years from the Board, to fund the treatment of injured players who are registered under the Cricket Association of Bengal.
"I have decided to give away my pension amount to Ankit's family," Ganguly, who is the current joint-secretary of the CAB, told reporters after CAB's finance committee meeting.
"It's also my personal decision to fund the treatment of injured players, the ones that are CAB-registered.
I will use the amount that I get as pension from the Board," he added. As per BCCI's pension scheme, former Test cricketers receive an amount of Rs 4,20,000 annually
