MAN WHO TURNED CRICKET INTO GLOBAL SPORT - SRI JAGMOHAN DALMIYA



REMEMBERING SRI JAGMOHAN DALMIYA  NICKNAMED IN THE MEDIA AS THE 

- MACHIAVELLI OF INDIAN CRICKET

- MASTER OF REAL POLITIK

- KING OF COMEBACKS



SRI JAGMOHAN DALMIYA BORN IN A MARWARI FAMILY WAS A CONSTRUCTION BUSINESSMAN FROM KOLKATTA WHO SAW HIMSELF AS A PROFESSIONAL SPORTS ADMINISTRATOR AND HAD EQUAL PASSION FOR BOTH CRICKET AND MONEY.  HIS FIRM ML DALMIYA AND CO. CONSTRUCTED THE CALCUTTA'S BIRLA PLANETARIUM IN 1963

DALMIYA STARTED HIS CAREER AS A WICKET KEEPER  AND BATSMAN AND LATER JOINED AS TREASURER, SECRETARY AND THEN PRESIDENT OF BCCI , DALMIYA REALIZED WHAT THE LIMITED-OVER GAME MEANT FOR INDIA.  HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR TURNING CRICKET INTO A GLOBAL SPORT.  

HE IS THE BEST INDIAN ADMINISTRATOR WHO HAVE TAKEN BCCI TO INTERNATIONAL LEVEL AND BROUGHT MONEY, FAME IN INDIAN CRICKET.  WHEN DALMIYA TOOK OVER AS ICC PRESIDENT IN 1997, ICC HAD FUNDS OF  £16000 AND WHEN HIS TERM ENDED IN 2000 IT HAD OVER $15 MILLIONS.

DALMIYA PROPOSED THE HOISTING OF 1987 WORLD CUP IN INDIAN SUBCONTINENT AND WITH SUPPORT VOTES FROM ASSOCIATE NATIONS IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THE CRICKET WORLD CUP HELD OUTSIDE ENGLAND AND THE FINAL WAS PLAYED IN KOLKATA.  



IN 1996 BBC DESCRIBED DALMIYA AS ONE OF THE WORLD'S TOP SIX SPORTS EXECUTIVE.

IN 2005 DALMIYA WAS AWARDED INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SPORTS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR ADMINISTRATIVE EXCELLENCE IN GOLOBAL SPORTS.

SRILANKA CRICKET RELEASED A BOOK ON THE 70TH INDEPENDENCE OF THE ISLAND TITLED "A TRIBUTE TO JAGA" TO FORMER BCCI PRESIDENT JAGMOHAN DALMIYA WHERE SLC PRESIDENT THILANGA TERMED DALMIYA AS A HERO WHO HAD THE GUTS TO STAND UP FOR WHAT WAS RIGHT AND CARRY ON IN THE FACE OF UNMATCHED ADVERSITY.

FORMER INDIAN SKIPPER SOURAV GANGULY SAID ABOUT FORMER BCCI AND CAB PRESIDENT JAGMOHAN DALMIYA   -"WHEN HE RAN CRICKET I WAS A PLAYER, SO I HAVEN'T SEEN HIM VERY CLOSELY HOW HE RUN THE BOARD AND CAB BUT HE WAS VERY DEAR TO ME, HE STILL IS, AND WILL ALWAYS BE.  IF I ACHIEVED WHAT HE ACHIEVED 50 PERCENT IN TERMS OF ADMINISTRATION I THINK WILL DO GREAT JOB."


DALMIYA HAD A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK AND PASSED AWAY ON 20 SEPT 2015 WHICH WAS A GREAT LOSS TO THE NATION.  AFTER HIS DEATH HIS EYES WERE DONATED TO VANMUKTA EYE BANK IN KOLKATA.  











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