SOURAV GANGULY DISCHARGED AFTER SECOND ANGIOPLASTY

KOLKATA: Indian cricket board chief Sourav Ganguly was discharged from hospital on Sunday morning, three days after he underwent a second round of angioplasty to clear clogged coronary arteries, officials said.

The 48-year-old cricket legend was hospitalised on Wednesday for the second time in a month due to his cardiac condition.

On Thursday, two more stents were implanted during the surgery conducted by a team of doctors.

“Mr Ganguly is doing fine and his heart is as strong as a normal person. He had an uneventful recovery and we are hopeful that within the next couple of days, he will be able to return to normal life,” a senior doctor of the private hospital, where he was admitted, said.

The former India captain is required to follow a strict routine and needs to be on medication for a few months, he added.

It was the second time this year that the former batsman had to be hospitalised, after being admitted in early January when he suffered a mild heart attack while exercising.

He underwent an angioplasty and had a stent inserted to open up his clogged arteries. During his second stint in hospital, two more stents were inserted, doctors said.

Ganguly was feted by hundreds of youths outside the hospital and at his Kolkata home when he was discharged.

They threw rose petals at his car and shouted: “Welcome Dada (elder brother). We are with you.”

Ganguly was unanimously elected president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India in the country, in 2019. AGENCIES