Meet Jagmohan Dalmiya, the next President of BCCI

Veteran cricket administrator Jagmohan Dalmiya has been elected unopposed as the BCCI president more than a decade after he last held the top job. But all eyes will be on the post of secretary as its a contest between Anurag Thakur and Sanjay Patel.

Dalmiya is nicknamed in the media as the Machiavelli of Indian cricket, master of realpolitik, the master of comebacks. He was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal on May 30, 1940. He studied at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta. 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 father’s firm ML Dalmiya and Co. and made it into one of India’s top construction firms. His firm constructed Calcutta’s M.P.Birla Planetarium in 1963.

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)

In 1997 he was unanimously elected President of the ICC (as the position had been renamed), which office he held for three years.

In 2005, he was expelled from BCCI for alleged misappropriation of funds and refusing to provide certain documents. However, in May 2007 he was exonerated by Supreme Court as the BCCI was unable to prove their charge of financial irregularities against him.

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.

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.

On March 1, 2015 he was elected unopposed as the next President of BCCI.

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