Jagmohan Dalmiya

Jagmohan Dalmiya, born in Calcutta (now Kolkata),

West Bengal, India on May 30, 1940, is an Indian cricket
administrator. He is also nicknamed in the media as the
Machiavelli of Indian cricket, master of realpolitik, the
master of comebacks and so on.[1] He is currently President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and
Cricket Association of Bengal. He has previously served
as President of the International Cricket Council. He is
also a businessman from the city of Kolkata.

In the 2005 BCCI board elections, his candidate Ranbir

Singh Mahendra was ousted by Indian government minister Sharad Pawar as the head cricket ocial of India.
Late the following year, he was expelled from the board
for alleged misappropriation of funds and refusing to provide certain documents.[8]

In July 2007, the Calcutta High Court dismissed charges

against him, and allowed him to contest for the presidency
of the Cricket Association of Bengal, which he subsequently won.[9]

However, in May 2007, when he challenged the decision

in the Bombay High Court and then the Supreme Court of
India he was exonerated as the BCCI was unable to prove
their charge of nancial irregularities against him.[9]

Life and career

Dalmiya hails from a Marwari family based in Kolkata.[2]

He studied at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta.[3] He
started his career as a wicketkeeper, playing for cricket
clubs (including his college team) in Calcutta and had
once made a double-century. He joined his fathers rm
ML Dalmiya and Co. and made it into one of Indias
top construction rms. His rm constructed Calcuttas
M.P.Birla Planetarium in 1963.

In June 2013, he was appointed as the interim president of

the BCCI after N. Srinivasan stepped aside till the probe
on Srinivasans son-in-laws alleged involvement in spotxing in the 2013 Indian Premier League was completed.
Srinivasan resumed the presidency in October 2013. On
2 March 2015 Dalmiya returned as BCCI president after
a 10-year gap replacing N. Srinivasan.[10]

He joined the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) in 1979, and became its treasurer in 1983 (the year
India won the Cricket World Cup) and later, along with
bureaucrat Inderjit Singh Bindra helped to win the right
to stage the World Cup in South Asia in 1987 and 1996.
He has been elected the President of BCCI on numerous occasions. In 1996 he received 23 votes to 13 for
Australias Malcolm Gray in an election for Chairman
of the International Cricket Council, but failed to attain
the two-thirds majority necessary under the ICC Constitution. However, in 1997 he was unanimously elected
President of the ICC (as the position had been renamed),
which oce he held for three years.

2 Awards and recognition

In 2005 he was awarded the International Journal of
the History of Sports Achievement award for administrative excellence in global sport.
In 1996, the BBC declared him to be one of the worlds
top six sports executives. When Australia and West Indies refused to play in terror-scarred Sri Lanka during the
1996 World Cup, he conjured up a united India-Pakistan
team in a matter of days to play friendlies against Sri
Lanka there. In 1991, when the boycott of South Africa
ocially ended, he arranged a tour of the South African
cricket team in India that went a long way in helping them
shed the stigma of apartheid.

He was involved in a major row with the ICC over the

so-called 'Denness Aair,' where ICC referee and former
England captain Mike Denness found Sachin Tendulkar
guilty of a technical breach of the rules (misreported in
the Indian media as an allegation of ball-tampering) and
giving him a ne and suspended sentence, while also banning Virender Sehwag for one match for claiming a catch
o a bump ball.[4] There was a major argument and questions were asked in the Indian Parliament.[5] Dalmiya
demanded a right of appeal from the ICC, which was
refused, and also demanding that Denness be replaced
as match referee for the following test or it would be
cancelled.[6] Ultimately, as Denness was not permitted to
referee the nal match of the series by the BCCI and the
UCBSA, it was stripped of Test status by the ICC.[7]

Australian cricketer and commentator Ian Chappell has

said of Dalmiya: He has a vision for the games progress
that I havent heard enunciated by any other so-called
leader among cricket ocials. [11]

3 Personal life
Dalmiyas wife hails from the Ghosh family of
Pathuriaghata. He has a daughter and a son.
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References

[1] Jagmohan Dalmiya is king of comebacks. The Times

of India. 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
[2] http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/
28609.html
[3] Some Alumni of Scottish Church College in 175th Year
Commemoration Volume. Scottish Church College, April
2008. page 589
[4] Williamson, Martin.
The Denness
Cricinfo.com. Retrieved 9 February 2013.

Aair.

[5] Sta Reporter. Ball tampering controversy aired in the

Indian Parliament. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
[6] ICC will not overrule Denness decision. Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
[7] Tour Match: South Africa XI vs India XI. Cricinfo.
Retrieved 9 February 2013.
[8] Dalmiya expelled from BCCI. Cricinfo. 2006-12-16.
Retrieved 2013-06-03.
[9] Tehelka article
[10] After 10-Year Gap, Bengal Tiger Jagmohan Dalmiya Returns as BCCI Chief. NDTV. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
[11] Jagmohan Dalmiya, the Machiavelli of Indian cricket.

External links
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At The Telegraph
At BBC
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