[2015] Jagmohan Dalmiya elected new BCCI President

[Bhaijaan]

Veteran official Jagmohan Dalmiya has been elected head of Indian cricket's governing body, replacing the sport's world supremo Narayanaswami Srinivasan following a corruption scandal. This is the second term for the Cricket Association of Bengal president. Anurag Thakur, who was joint-secretary before has become the new secretary after edging out Sanjay Patel 15-14.

In other positions, TC Matthews was elected one of the five vice-presidents, while Amitabh Chaudhary (Jharkhand) and Anirudh Chaudhary (Haryana) were elected joint-secretary and Treasurer respectively.

Amitabh won a closely contested fight against Chetan Desai and only sailed through after chairman Shivlal Yadav's casting vote. Anirudh defeated Rajeev Shukla, who was a BCCI vice-president from the central zone. Both Amitabh and Anirudh are Srinivasan loyalists. Effectively, Srinivasan's camp has wrested most of the top positions from the Sharad Pawar camp.
Dalmiya, a former head of the International Cricket Council, emerged as the front-runner amid backroom negotiations for votes at elections on Monday for the BCCI.

Dalmiya, 74, was the "consensus candidate" among rival factions for BCCI president, a position he held a decade ago.
The Supreme Court barred Srinivasan from standing as a candidate for BCCI chief, although he can cast his vote, following its probe into a betting and fixing scandal surrounding the Indian Premier League (IPL).

The court in January found Srinivasan guilty of a conflict of interest for having commercial dealings in the sport by owning an IPL franchise while he was also BCCI head.

Srinivasan is the current International Cricket Council (ICC) chief. Dalmiya served as ICC president for three years from 1997 to 2000.

Dalmiya was ousted by rivals as BCCI chief in 2005 after a more than decade-long reign over the powerful and faction-ridden board.
The 74-year-old, who hails from Kolkata, is credited with helping to turn the game into a lucrative global sport. He twice brought the World Cup to the Indian sub-continent, in 1987 and 1996.

http://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/news...l-tiger-jamohan-dalmiya-returns-as-bcci-chief

 

[samplepiece]

Unanimously elected. Interesting.

 

[iafzal]

Whaaat? So his cronies did not back him anymore or that was the plan that once he heads ICC he will not be head of BCCI?
Not sure if the new guy is his buddy or not?

 

[samplepiece]

The new guy is actually the older guy.

 

[Suleiman]

So is Srini is still ICC chariman?

I was under the impression that if you step down as BCCI chairman you lost both posts.

 

[adarsh_bang]

Will Ganguly be given a plush role with the national team now? Would be a good move!

 

[Bhaijaan]

The new guy is actually the older guy.

Yup. He's my favourite BCCI president. Wishing him well.

 

[iHammad]

http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-new...book&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=short-url

 

[karthikc]

One corrupt guy replaced by another...It is only after Dalmia became ICC president before did corruption charges come out so openly.

 

[Bouncer]

I am surprised why this is not getting as much attention at PP as it should get.

Dalmiya was very big on corporation between countries in Asian block back in late 90's to early 2000 good thing is that he had a very good working relationship with Sheheyar Khan in those times. Let's see if it helps us get some indo pak cricket happen.

 

[Point Black]

Corruption at it's best.

 

[Sir Alex]

Hahaha,

just ridiculous.

Someone like Shashank Manohar would've been the best bet.

I prefer Sreeni to this chap honestly.

 

[cricketjoshila]

Dalmiya is back.What powerplay by the guy.And he is 100 times better than Srini or Pawar.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

I am surprised why this is not getting as much attention at PP as it should get.

Dalmiya was very big on corporation between countries in Asian block back in late 90's to early 2000 good thing is that he had a very good working relationship with Sheheyar Khan in those times. Let's see if it helps us get some indo pak cricket happen.

'I'm always thankful to Dalmiya' - Shoaib Akhtar

Shoaib Akhtar has said that he would always be thankful to Jagmohan Dalmiya, the former ICC and Indian board president, for supporting him when doubts were being raised about his bowling action.

"The first time, in 1999-2000, was awful," said Shoaib, in an Asian News International report, of the suspicions raised at the time. "I'm always going to be thankful to Mr. Jagmohan Dalmiya, the then ICC president, for his support. But, as I said, every controversy has made me a better and stronger person. I may have felt gutted, but the controversies haven't killed my josh (passion) and desire to play for Pakistan."

Shoaib also said that the doping controversy, during the Champions Trophy last year, was one of the toughest periods in his life. "My own countrymen shunned me, with some even refusing to look at me. It was a terrible period. Everybody's body mechanism isn't the same and certain levels are higher in my body compared to others.

"My hormone level fluctuates. I didn't take drugs to enhance my performance. I don't need to. I don't know why I was treated so badly. The test didn't show I was an evil person. I've always been misunderstood. I've never seen myself bigger than the game."

In an interview with Bigstarcricket.com, Shoaib added, "The Court's decision was a relief. Those times when I was banned were the darkest of my life, as I was in such agony and pain and mental stress. But I have never taken illegal substances, I never did anything wrong."

Surprisingly, given that he didn't ultimately face any punishment at all, Shoaib blasted the Pakistan board for their handling of the matter. "The way the doping case was handled was stupid and pathetically wrong," said Shoaib. "They (the PCB) could have saved their country's respect and a big disaster because the two of us lost our fitness and never ended up going to the World Cup.

"The last four years for Pakistan cricket have been ballistic with The Oval fiasco, my doping fiasco, it was too much for Pakistan cricket to handle. Now the Pakistan team is recovering and we would like to do well once again."

Source : http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/300765.html

 

[BaaliSoda]

IIRC, Dalmiya in the last few years was basically a proxy for Srini (both being cement industry barons with heavy political connections are just a coincidence) at BCCI.

I feel Srini is still too powerful/clever to be booted out completely from BCCI despite all that is happening outside of it (Supreme court's views on BCCI, in particular)

 

[Abid Z]

Jaggu was the most proficient administrator the BCCI had. I can't say anything about corruption as nothing is proven but in terms of developing cricket in the Asia bloc he was hands down the best. I would love him to get together with Shehryar Khan and do something for Pak cricket administration. If anybody can, Jaggu can.

 

[cricketjoshila]

Jaggu and Thakur must act together to finish off Srini influence in BCCI.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Jaggu and Thakur must act together to finish off Srini influence in BCCI.

But isn't Jaggu a proxy of Srini mama?

And Pawar gang (Thakur) - Are they any good?

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Any chance of us accepting DRS now?

Please God...sick of no DRS.

 

[cricketjoshila]

But isn't Jaggu a proxy of Srini mama?

And Pawar gang (Thakur) - Are they any good?

Its a very complicate thing.

Srinivasan had no option but to support Dalmiya as the eastern zone wanted him and Pawar also supported him as he knws that Dalmiya is too shrewd and powerful to be controlled by Srini.

Thakur is a very good administrator,see what he has done to DharmaShala.Thakur and Amitabh Choudhury were both Dalmiya men and voted for him till Pawar became BCCI President.So now that Dalmiya is back theseold allies would be together and lets see what happens.

 

[Bhaijaan]

He had Srini's support it seems.

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[cricketjoshila]

He had Srini's support it seems.

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Well if not Srini even Pawar was ready to help him and now both are claiming that Dalmiya is their man.He also had the backing of Arun Jaitley.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Its a very complicate thing.

Srinivasan had no option but to support Dalmiya as the eastern zone wanted him and Pawar also supported him as he knws that Dalmiya is too shrewd and powerful to be controlled by Srini.

Thakur is a very good administrator,see what he has done to DharmaShala.Thakur and Amitabh Choudhury were both Dalmiya men and voted for him till Pawar became BCCI President.So now that Dalmiya is back theseold allies would be together and lets see what happens.

I see....Interesting.

Thanks for the info.

 

[Donal Cozzie]

But isn't Jaggu a proxy of Srini mama?

And Pawar gang (Thakur) - Are they any good?

Everyone's a proxy of

Tony Blair,Nawaz Sharif,Imran Khan, Obama and even himself

 

[IgnitedMind]

Dalmiya is not a proxy for anybody...Pawar or Srini.

Since there was noway Dalmiya was not coming into power this time...Srini and Pawar had no choice but to back him. Dalmiya is one of main reason for growth of cricket commercially in India..he laid the roots which Srini Mama built on.

Hopefully, Ganguly gets in as well in some kind of administrator position. Need more cricketers in there.

 

[JaDed]

One corrupt guy replaced by another...It is only after Dalmia became ICC president before did corruption charges come out so openly.

we became a strong board only after Dalmiya,Pawar,Srini taking over.Over that in Srini's tenure all the former players were given money additionally.And cricket a talked abt career among Indians not coz Sachin but coz BCCI has made it viable.

 

[JaDed]

Its a very complicate thing.

Srinivasan had no option but to support Dalmiya as the eastern zone wanted him and Pawar also supported him as he knws that Dalmiya is too shrewd and powerful to be controlled by Srini.

Thakur is a very good administrator,see what he has done to DharmaShala.Thakur and Amitabh Choudhury were both Dalmiya men and voted for him till Pawar became BCCI President.So now that Dalmiya is back theseold allies would be together and lets see what happens.

Dalmiya was the one who started making BCCI a financial force.I don't care what people say abt Dalmiya,Pawar or Srini they have made cricket a proper career now.

 

[cricketindiafan]

I hope Dalmiya remember the humiliation he had to suffer because of both the Pawar gang and Srini gang.

In 2011 WC, Eden did not get a single good match, no knock out matches either. In general Eden was being ignored in last few years.

Clean up the Srini influence in BCCI and gradually get him kicked out of ICC presidency as well.

 

[cricketjoshila]

Fun will start 6 months down the line once these guys have settled in.Ganguly is being touted for one of the three posts

1.IPL chairman
2.Team India Director
3.Team India coach

 

[DanishJamil]

Relations between Jaggu and PCB have been pretty good in the past. Hopefully we'll see more India Pakistan matches in the future and Pakistani players featuring in next IPL.

 

[SamNJ]

I think we'll see Indian team touring UAE for a test series unless some major screw up.

 

[Nihil]

I personally think Dhoni will be stepping down from his ODI captaincy soon - maybe right after the world cup given two conditions:

1. India reach semis/finals
2. Kohli performs well

Kohli is the automatic choice for the next captain. He is already the Test captain, and commands enough respect in the ODI arena to be the captain.
Now, Duncan Fletcher's time is almost over. Dhoni wanted Hussey to be the coach, but let's see whether it is Hussey or Ganguly. Personally, I think Ganguly will be great for Bangladesh or Pakistan - he is a great talent scout, and has the fire in him to turn over these teams. Personally, knowing Ganguly he would be more inclined towards the Bangladesh job - as he is a Bengali through and through.

 

[yadunoe]

I am surprised why this is not getting as much attention at PP as it should get.

Dalmiya was very big on corporation between countries in Asian block back in late 90's to early 2000 good thing is that he had a very good working relationship with Sheheyar Khan in those times. Let's see if it helps us get some indo pak cricket happen.

if true then good move we need more indo pak series to increase the 20 plus gap

 

[IgnitedMind]

On Monday, Dalmiya was unanimously elected the BCCI president in the board’s much-delayed annual general meeting (AGM). Dalmiya’s victory was made all the more sweet by his arch rival and challenger Sharad Pawar having to opt out of the race after failing to secure nomination for the post.

His nomination was backed by all six members of East Zone, whose turn it was to elect the next BCCI president, as per the board’s policy of rotating presidency among zones.

Dalmiya also becomes the first BCCI president to hold two terms, after a 2012 constitutional amendment allowed a candidate from a different zone to become president if his name is both proposed and seconded by the zone whose turn it is to elect the president.

Known to friends as Jaggu Da, Dalmiya entered BCCI in 1979 when it wasn’t the cricketing power that it is today, and rose to become its treasurer in 1983.

He joined hands with I.S. Bindra (with whom he fell out later) to break the hegemony of Australia and England over the International Cricket Council and bring the coveted cricket World Cup to the sub-continent, first in 1987 and later in 1996.

In 1992, when Bindra was BCCI president, Dalmiya was elected secretary of the board. Together, they’d take steps that would change Indian cricket forever, at least commercially.

Before 1993, India’s state-owned broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) held a monopoly on the live telecast of cricket matches. The BCCI had to pay DD roughly Rs.5 lakh per game to broadcast the matches.

Enter Dalmiya and Bindra. The duo fought DD’s monopoly by selling television rights to TransWorld International (TWI) ahead of the India-England series for a fee of $40,000 or Rs.18 lakh. DD on its part, was forced to purchase broadcast rights from TWI for $1 million, with the BCCI making a $600,000 profit.

Prior to the England series in 1993, for the first time in its history, the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) and BCCI tried getting a private broadcaster to produce matches in the Hero Cup, a tournament organized by the Dalmiya-led CAB to commemorate its diamond jubilee in November 1993.

They further sought to sell the broadcast rights to a private channel. It resulted in a legal dispute between CAB and the ministry of information and broadcasting which eventually culminated in a historic verdict that would change Indian broadcasting forever.

The Supreme Court ruled that airwaves could no longer be a state monopoly, paving the way for BCCI to sell television rights.

Then came the 1996 World Cup, by which time Dalmiya had consolidated his position within the BCCI power elite. The World Cup, which was jointly hosted by India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, was a watershed moment for the business of cricket.

Dalmiya, who was the convenor of the Pakistan India Lanka Commission (PILCOM) was also instrumental in selling television rights for the tournament to WorldTel, a US-based company headed by the late Mark Mascarenhas.

The rights were sold for $10 million, a staggering amount at the time. Wills, a tobacco/cigarette brand owned by ITC Ltd paid $12 million to become the tournament sponsor of the 1996 World Cup.

After the success of the 1996 World Cup, the last of its kind where the host nation managed the tournament, Dalmiya’s ambitions went global. He was elected the first ICC President in 1997, and would go on to serve for a term of three years, before leaving office in 2000.

As ICC president, he went about changing (and modernising) the way the organization was run, resetting its agenda to make it a more profit-driven body, with high rewards—or doles, if you like—for those who supported him—a tactic Dalmiya perfected during his stint in the BCCI.

The TV rights for the 1999 World Cup, organized by ICC were sold for about $16 million. In June 2000, Dalmiya quit as ICC president a month after awarding television rights for two ICC events—the ICC World Cup and ICC Knockout Champions Trophy.

In May 2000, the marketing rights for the events were awarded to the Rupert Murdoch-owned Global Cricket Corporation (GCC) for an amount of $550 million.

The bitter fall

Immediately after relinquishing his ICC post, Dalmiya returned to Eden Gardens in Kolkata, his second home, to be re-elected CAB chief. In 2001, after spending nearly two decades in the BCCI’s power circles, Dalmiya was elected BCCI president for his first term.

In 2004, after the completion of his term, Ranbir Singh Mahendra, the son of former Haryana chief minister Bansi Lal and a Dalmiya loyalist, was elected president in a bitter contest against then Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar.

With the two tied at 15 votes each, Dalmiya cast his vote in Mahendra’s favour, igniting a fierce rivalry in Indian cricket’s corridors of power that still hasn’t ended. A year later, Pawar had his way, defeating Mahendra by 21 votes to 10, in an election that would change Indian cricket.

Buoyed by the ouster of Mahendra, in 2006, the Pawar-led BCCI filed a criminal complaint in a Mumbai police station against Dalmiya, alleging misappropriation of funds during his stint as PILCOM convenor.

Dalmiya was alleged to have transferred Rs.40 crore from an Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) account to CAB, of which he was president at the time. Within months, Dalmiya—the man who spearheaded Indian cricket’s commercial revolution, was suspended and expelled from the BCCI.

In 2007, he successfully challenged the criminal cases filed by BCCI before the Bombay high court, and with BCCI unable to prove its charges against him, he was vindicated. Likewise, the Calcutta high court suspended his expulsion, paving the way for Dalmiya to contest CAB elections in 2008. BCCI revoked Dalmiya’s expulsion in 2010 after he withdrew a civil suit against the board.

The return

After biding his time as CAB chief (except a 19-month period when he stepped down in 2006) for nearly eight years, Dalmiya returned to BCCI in June 2013 after he was appointed “interim administrator.”

That was after Srinivasan was forced to “step aside” till probe into a betting and spot-fixing scandal in the Indian Premier League (IPL) was completed. Dalmiya held the post for two months, announcing a slew of anti-corruption measures and a complete overhaul of IPL. Most of those measures are yet to be implemented by BCCI.

In October 2014, in an apparent declaration of support for Srinivasan ahead of the elections, CAB and all its affliliate clubs felicitated ICC chairman. Confident of an all-clear from the Supreme Court, Srinivasan pitched himself for a second term to the East Zone, which was to elect the next BCCI president.

However, in January 2015, when the Supreme Court virtually barred Srinivasan from standing for a second term as BCCI president, Dalmiya started moving again. The Srinivasan camp was already mulling his candidacy for the post of board president.

After regaining the president’s post at the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), Pawar was keenly eyeing BCCI’s top job in what would have been his second term at the helm. With the apparent backing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pawar embarked on an ambitious campaign seeking, to find a proposer and seconder for his nomination among East Zone associations, forcing an election.

Dalmiya, meanwhile, had an enviable start to begin with, two votes, from CAB and the National Cricket Club (NCC), the two bodies of which he is the president.

Having secured nomination and the backing of the other East Zone members without much of an effort, Dalmiya then won an assurance from Srinivasan of his backing.

Despite a late effort by the Pawar camp to field young BJP leader Anurag Thakur for the top job, the game was up. Thakur, like Pawar, couldn’t muster the numbers, and with utmost reluctance, Pawar agreed to Dalmiya as a “consensus candidate” of both rival factions.

The grand old Marwari had done it again. This time, he had won unchallenged.

The return, in many ways, was complete.

http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/Av...rise-fall-and-return-of-Jagmohan-Dalmiya.html

 

[Nihil]

http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/Av...rise-fall-and-return-of-Jagmohan-Dalmiya.html

Yes, but a sad fact - I know of two Indian Overseas Bank officers who were jailed and had their lives ruined in Pawar's attempt to get back at Dalmiya.
In the subcontinent - bade bade log khelte hai, aur hum chhote log bhukatte hai

 

[Yossarian]

So what's to be the situation vis-a-vis The ICC Chairmanship and Srini ?

 

[Thivagar]

We need some input from Indians who know a thing about this guy.

1. Is he corrupt free ? (yes, no, yes but not bad as srini)
2. Is he a money hog like Srini? or No?
3. Share more facts about Dalmiya

 

[Nihil]

We need some input from Indians who know a thing about this guy.

1. Is he corrupt free ? (yes, no, yes but not bad as srini)
2. Is he a money hog like Srini? or No?
3. Share more facts about Dalmiya

See, you cannot be an angel and reach the top. Crony capitalism will always exist. But he has his good points - he opened the money spigot for Indian cricket, and maintained great relationships with other Asian boards.

 

[Thivagar]

See, you cannot be an angel and reach the top. Crony capitalism will always exist. But he has his good points - he opened the money spigot for Indian cricket, and maintained great relationships with other Asian boards.

Was he the one who organized India vs Pak tour of Canada ?

 

[MenInG]

The Supreme Court Wednesday said that the Pak-Indo-Lanka joint management Committee (PILCOM), which was formed for the purpose of conducting 1996 cricket world cup, was liable to deduct tax at source for payments made to non-resident sports associations for the tournament.

PILCOM was a committee formed by the cricket boards or associations of Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka for the purpose of conducting the 1996 cricket world cup tournament which was jointly hosted by these three countries.

The apex court said that payments made to the non-resident sports associations for the cricket world cup tournament represented their income which accrued or deemed to have arisen in India.

A bench comprising Justices U U Lalit and Vineet Saran delivered its judgement on an appeal filed by PILCOM challenging the November 2010 order of the Calcutta High Court in this regard.

"In the premises, it must be held that the payments made to the non-resident sports associations in the present case represented their income which accrued or arose or was deemed to have accrued or arisen in India. Consequently, the appellant (PILCOM) was liable to deduct tax at source in terms of section 194E of the Act," the bench said, while dismissing the appeal of PILCOM.

Section 194E of the Income Tax Act deals with payments to non-resident sportsmen or sports associations.

The verdict noted that out of 37 matches played in all in the world cup tournament, only 17 were played in India.

Detailing the facts, the judgement noted that these three host countries were required to pay varying amounts to cricket boards or associations of different countries as well as to the International Cricket Council (ICC) in connection with conducting the preliminary phases of the tournament and also for promotion of game in their respective countries.

Two bank accounts were opened by PILCOM in London, to be operated jointly by the representatives of Indian and Pakistan cricket boards, in which receipt from sponsorship, TV rights and others were deposited and from which the expenses were met.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had appointed its committee for the purpose of hosting world cup matches in India.

Since the convener-secretary of the BCCI's committee was functioning from Calcutta, necessary bank accounts were opened there for receipts and expenditure relating to world cup matches to be held in India.

Certain amounts were transferred from back accounts in London to the three co-host countries for disbursement of fees payable to the umpires and referees and also defraying administrative expenses and prize money.

It came to the knowledge of income tax (IT) department that PILCOM had made payments to ICC as well as to cricket control boards or associations of different member countries of ICC from its two London bank accounts.

Thereafter, the income tax department issued a notice to the office of PILCOM located in Calcutta asking it to show-cause why actions under the relevant section of IT Act be not taken against it for its failure to deduct taxes from payments made by it in accordance with section 194E.

During the arguments before the top court, PILCOM's counsel had said that payments were towards grant of privilege and had nothing to do with matches that were played in India and they were made in accordance with the decision of ICC in a meeting held in London.

PILCOM's counsel had argued that the amounts were made over in England and the basic question in the matter was whether any income had accrued in India.

The counsel appearing for the IT department had argued in the top court that income in question had arisen from a source of income in India, which was playing of cricket matches here, and the requirement of law was fully satisfied.

"In the present case, the non-resident sports associations had participated in the event, where cricket teams of these associations had played various matches in the country," the apex court said.

"Though the payments were described as guarantee money, they were intricately connected with the event where various cricket teams were scheduled to play and did participate in the event. The source of income, as rightly contended by the Revenue, was in the playing of the matches in India," the bench said.

Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/sports...made-to-non-resident-body-says-sc-831449.html