16 October,2019 08:27 AM IST | | IANS
Sourav Ganguly
Kolkata: Congratulating Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee for winning the Nobel prize for Economics, former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday called it a "terrific" achievement.
Ganguly, who is set to take over as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, said Banerjee's feat was a much bigger achievement.
"It's (Nobel prize) a much bigger and terrific achievement," Ganguly said on his return to Kolkata as president-elect of the cricket board.
Ganguly said he has never met Banerjee, but hoped to meet him in future.
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"I was reading about him in the flight and what he did. It's on economics related to poverty. He's a special persona From all of us, heartiest congratulations (to Banerjee)," he said.
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