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A lot has happened in the world of sport this past week. Rafael Nadal won the French… err… Nadal Open for the 14th time. Saudi Arabia officially launched its latest sportswashing project—a golf tournament. Mithali Raj, one of the greatest Indian cricketers of all time, called it a day. And England batter Joe Root entered the 10,000-run club in Test cricket.

There was also some A-grade buffoonery on social media from Sourav Ganguly, former India cricket captain and the current president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). And so, ahead of a huge weekend for the BCCI, with the auction for the next five-year cycle of the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) media rights scheduled for Sunday, let’s talk about what the board president did.

It’s something he has been doing, rather unabashedly, for a long time.

Sourav Ganguly: the prince of conflict

The first tweet landed at 5.20 pm on 1 June.

Within minutes, #CricketTwitter was abuzz with speculation that Ganguly was going to resign from his position as BCCI president, four months before his three-year tenure ends.