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30th MAY 1940-22nd SEPTEMBER 2015 JAGMOHAN DALMIYA

Jagmohan Dalmiya

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Jagmohan Dalmiya
President, BCCI
In office
2 March 2015[1] – 20 September 2015 (till death)
Preceded byShivlal Yadav
In office
2013–2013
Preceded byN. Srinivasan
Succeeded byShivlal Yadav
In office
2001–2004
Preceded byA. C. Muthiah
Succeeded byRanbir Singh Mahendra
Personal details
Born30 May 1940
Calcutta, British India
Died20 September 2015 (aged 75)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Children2
OccupationCo-owner of M. L. Dalmiya & Co.
Jagmohan Dalmiya (30 May 1940 – 20 September 2015) was an Indian cricket administrator and businessman from the city of Kolkata. He was the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India andCricket Association of Bengal. He had previously served as the President of the International Cricket Council.

Life and career[edit]

Dalmiya was born into a Marwari Baniya family based in Kolkata.[2][3] He studied at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta.[4] He started his career as a wicketkeeper, playing for cricket clubs (including his college team) in Calcutta and had once[when?] made a double-century. He joined his father's firm ML Dalmiya and Co. and made it into one of India's top construction firms. His firm constructed Calcutta'sBirla Planetarium in 1963.
He joined the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 1979, and became its treasurer in 1983 (the year India won the Cricket World Cup). Along with bureaucrat Inderjit Singh Bindra and cricket administrator NKP Salve, Dalmiya proposed the hosting of 1987 World Cup in the Indian subcontinent. The proposal received opposition from England, which had hosted all three previous World Cups. However, in 1984, with support votes from Associate nations, the proposal passed through International Cricket Council (ICC) with a huge majority. The 1987 World Cup was the first time the Cricket World Cup was held outside of England, and paved way for rotation system for hosting the tournament.[5]
Dalmiya proposed the re-entry of South Africa to international cricket in 1991 and ensured South Africa's three-match ODI tour of India the same year. Dalmiya's role is said to have been important, as the then ICC President Clyde Walcott was not in favor of discussing South Africa's re-entry to cricket. In November 1991, South Africa played their first international match since their suspension from international cricket in 1970, an ODI at Kolkata's Eden Gardens in front of over 100,000 spectators. This match also marked South Africa's return to international sports ending their sporting boycott.[6]
After the Indian subcontinent secured the hosting rights for the 1996 World Cup, Australia and West Indies refused to play in terror-scarred Sri Lanka during the tournament. Dalmiya, who was then the Secretary of BCCI, conjured up a united India-Pakistan team in a matter of days to play friendlies against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka. With a record-breaking deal for TV rights being signed for the World Cup, the tournament went on to become a major commercial success.
In 1996, Dalmiya received 23 votes to 13 for Australia's Malcolm Gray in an election for Chairman's post of the ICC, 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), the office of which he held for three years. During his tenure as President, Dalmiya's support was instrumental in awarding Bangladesh the Test status. Bangladesh went on to play their first Test match in November 2000 against India at Dhaka. He had also supported Bangladesh in winning the hosting rights of the first-ever ICC Knockout Trophy in 1998.[6]
After his stint as ICC President, Dalmiya was elected the President of BCCI for the first time in 2001. Later the same year, he was involved in a major row with the ICC over the so-called 'Denness Affair' in which the ICC match 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 gave him a fine and suspended sentence, while also banning Virender Sehwag for one match for claiming a catch off a bump ball.[7] There was a major argument about the issue and questions were asked in the Indian Parliament.[8] 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.[9] Ultimately, as Denness was not permitted to referee the final match of the series by the BCCI and the UCBSA, it was stripped of Test status by the ICC.[10]
In the 2005 BCCI board elections, his candidate Ranbir Singh Mahendra was ousted by Indian government minister Sharad Pawar as the head cricket official of India. Later the following year, he was expelled from the board for alleged misappropriation of funds and refusing to provide certain documents.[11] 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 financial irregularities against him.[12]
In July 2010, 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.[12]
In June 2013, he was appointed as the interim president of the BCCI after N. Srinivasan stepped aside till the probe on Srinivasan's son-in-law's alleged involvement in spot-fixing 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 Srinivasan.[13]

Awards and recognition[edit]

In 1996, the BBC declared him to be one of the world's top six sports executives. In 2005, he was awarded the International Journal of the History of Sports Achievement award for administrative excellence in global sport.
He was also nicknamed in the media as the "Machiavelli of Indian cricket", "master of realpolitik", the "master of comebacks" and so on.[14]
Australian cricketer and commentator Ian Chappell has said of Dalmiya: "He has a vision for the game’s progress that I haven’t heard enunciated by any other so-called leader among cricket officials." [15]

Personal life[edit]

Dalmiya’s wife hails from the Ghosh family of Pathuriaghata. He has a daughter and a son.

Death[edit]

Dalmiya began his second term as BCCI president last March. But he was ailing since then, and his health deteriorated further in September. On 17 September 2015, he suffered a massive cardiac arrest and was admitted to the BM Birla Hospital in Kolkata. He remained at the Intensive Care Unit and a five-member medical board was set up for his treatment. He passed away on 20 September 2015 after he had also undergone a coronary angiography.[16][17] "Dalmiya died of internal gastrointestinal bleeding and internal organ failure," hospital sources said confirming the veteran cricket administrator's death.
After his death, Dalmiya's eyes were donated to Vanmukta Eye Bank in the city. On 21 September 2015, Dalmiya's body was taken from his house in Alipore to the Cricket Association of Bengal office at the Eden Gardens. Several dignitaries arrived in Kolkata including Former Indian Skipper and legend,Prince of Kolkata Sourav Ganguly to pay their last respects to him.[18]

Tributes[edit]

"BCCI condoles the sudden demise of our president Shri Jagmohan Dalmiya," BCCI twitter handle said after the demise. “Sad. Dalmiya ji passes away. He was a giant amongst sports administrators, a true lover of Bengal. On my way to pay my respect". RIP,said West Bengal CM Mamata Benerjee. BCCI expressed its condolence after the sudden demise while BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur called it a personal loss.PM of India Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee even expressed their heartfelt condolences to his family on twitter.
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Jagmohan Dalmiya: The man Indian cricket needed to cut England, Australia down to size

by Ashish Magotra  Sep 22, 2015 07:30 IST
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The condolences paid by Cricket Australia and the England and Wales Cricket Board to Jagmohan Dalmiya is perhaps a mark of grudging respect for a rival who not only helped India rise up as a commercial power in cricket, but also undermined the hold Australia and England had established over the game.
Dalmiya was many things and let it be clear, not all of them can be classified in black and white. In fact, there are so many shades of grey that in his prime, rivals were never quite sure of what backroom manoeuvring he might manage. Remember the deciding vote to keep Sharad Pawar out of power and make Ranbir Singh Mahendra (his man) the president, or the manner in which he beat Malcolm Gray to become ICC president?
He was the man who mattered. The man who understood how to work the BCCI constitution better than anyone else. The man whose career was the template that N Srinivasan adopted in his rise to the top. He was a man who rarely ever lost himself to anger, and always spoke in a calm voice with a smile on his face. He had a piercing gaze and a matter-of-fact manner. He was also a hands-on administrator. He could be a hard man to deal with, but rarely, if ever, would one see the lethal edge that made him so feared.
File photo of Jagmohan Dalmiya and Malcolm Gray. Laurence Griffiths/ALLSPORT
File photo of Jagmohan Dalmiya and Malcolm Gray. Laurence Griffiths/ALLSPORT
An English county chairman called him 'that awful man from India'. Another administrator described him as 'a cricket terrorist'. India saw him in a much, softer light.
But, of course, to give him his due, one must go back to the 1983 World Cup final when NKP Salve was famously denied passes to the Lord's enclosure, despite India being in the climactic game.
Salve didn't take to the affront very kindly.
“We must take the World Cup to India,” he told his two BCCI cohorts, Dalmiya (who was then the treasurer) and IS Bindra.
It was never going to be easy though. England and Australia raised all sorts of objections -- of history, lack of infrastructure and the lack of necessary capital. When all of that seemed to fail, the English focussed on a technicality -- cricket is a winter sport and it would be impossible for each side to bowl 60 overs, which would violate the World Cup rules.
Salve's response was simple, he changed the rules. Just like that 60-over cricket took a back seat to the 50-over format. But even then, the final push only came when India-Pakistan offered to up the prize money in the 1987 tournament by over 50 percent as compared to 1983. It was a lesson Dalmiya learnt -- money is the best bargaining chip -- and one he never forgot.
Dalmiya joined the BCCI in 1979, and soon enough formed a formidable partnership with Bindra. They had a vision for Indian cricket, which at that point operated out of a small room in Churchgate in Mumbai. They wanted the body to make money; they wanted it to be profitable and to their credit, they saw the potential much before anyone else did. In the early phase of Dalmiya's career, it was almost impossible to tell him and Bindra apart.
The 1987 World Cup was a success, but their biggest moment was still ahead of them.
In 1992, with Bindra as president and Dalmiya as secretary of the board, the BCCI decided it wanted to make some money. Before 1993, Doordarshan (India’s state-owned broadcaster) held a monopoly on the live telecast of cricket matches. The BCCI had to pay -- yes, that's right -- DD roughly Rs 5 lakh per game to broadcast the matches.
But Dalmiya and Bindra sought to sell the TV rights. The duo fought DD in the courts (the Supreme Court ruled that airwaves could no longer be a state monopoly, paving the way for the BCCI to sell television rights) and broke the monopoly, selling television rights to TransWorld International (TWI) ahead of the India-England series for $40,000 or Rs 18 lakh. Small change, given what the Board makes today, but a big step towards the commercialization of the BCCI.
The 1996 World Cup brought in even more money. TV rights were sold to the tune of $10 million and Wills, a cigarette brand owned by ITC Ltd, paid $12 million to become the tournament sponsor. Big money had arrived and so had India -- suddenly everyone wanted India to tour.
In 1997, Dalmiya became the ICC's first Asian president and led the council till 2000. Throughout his tenure, he sought to become the powerbroker for Asian Cricket. Bangladesh also became a Test nation during his tenure. His argument that the game's commercial future lies within the sub-continent was proved true time and again as he managed to raise massive deals for the ICC and for Indian cricket.
The match-fixing scandal also broke during his tenure and his tepid response was typical of a man who never wanted to make internal matters public. He was rarely ever ruffled but beneath that veneer of calm was a man who carefully selected the battles he wanted to fight.
Take for example, the Mike Denness controversy. In November 2001, Dalmiya was the president of the BCCI when the storm blew in. Tendulkar had been found guilty by ICC match referee Denness of tampering with the ball during India's second Test against South Africa.
Denness slapped a suspended one-match ban on Tendulkar and also sanctioned five other Indian players, including captain Sourav Ganguly, for bringing the game into disrepute through excessive appealing. It exposed a very big problem that persisted despite Dalmiya's rise -- that Indian cricketers were, in those times, guilty until proved innocent.

Dalmiya stood by the cricketers, issued a boycott threat, forced the ouster of former England captain Denness and the UCBSA-appointed South African Denis Lindsay, preventing them from officiating in the final Test. A little later, the ICC also made it clear that Tendulkar was not guilty of ball tampering.
In his book Indian Summer, former India coach John Wright noted: "The way Dalmiya handled this row sent out a very clear signal to the rest of the cricket world that from here on India wasn't going to take any crap from any quarter. His critics accused him of inflaming public opinion and turning a cricketing issue into a post-colonial 'us versus them' confrontation, but from the team's point of view it felt as if our integrity was being defended and our interests protected. I certainly sensed a difference in the way we were treated by match referees after Dalmiya took over."
If you keep all the politics aside, Dalmiya was a cricket lover first. He really did care about the players (the ones he liked, at least) but perhaps he too was a prisoner of the system. If one wanted to stay in power, then the system was already there to be exploited and Dalmiya was the one who invented the system.
In the end, he was perhaps just a shadow of his former self. But his re-election as president this year showed that he still, even in failing health, knew the right buttons to push.
At the end of the day, the good probably outweighs the bad. And that, in essence, is the memory that Dalmiya leaves us with -- a man who through various means set India on the path of becoming a super power in cricket. That is truly his legacy.
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      3. Jagmohan Dalmiya was an Indian cricket administrator and businessman from the city of Kolkata. He was the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Cricket Association of Bengal. Wikipedia
      5. Born: May 30, 1940, Kolkata
      6. Died: September 20, 2015, Kolkata
      7. Spouse: Chandralekha Dalmiya (m. ?–2015)
      8. Residence: Kolkata
      9. Children: Abhishek Dalmiya, Vaishali Dalmiya
      10. Education: Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta
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