Dalmiya likely to retain strike

Jagmohan Dalmiya is all set to be retained as the president, but a keen tussle is expected for the secretary’s post at the two-day 73rd...

Jagmohan Dalmiya is all set to be retained as the president, but a keen tussle is expected for the secretary’s post at the two-day 73rd Annual General Meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) beginning here tomorrow. Dalmiya, who had won an acrimonious election battle last year, is unlikely to be challenged on his home turf as the rival camp of AC Muthiah and Raj Singh Dungarpur conceded that there would be no election for the post of president.

The AGM is being held in the aftermath of the bitter contract row between the players and the board, which, at one point of time, put a big question mark over India managing to field its top guns for the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka. With allegations and counter-allegations flying thick and fast about who signed the controversial document which contained the players’ terms, the board meeting may turn stormy.

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Dungarpur’s beamer

KOLKATA: Former BCCI president Raj Singh Dungarpur today came down heavily on his bete noire and current board chief Jagmohan Dalmiya alleging that he had ‘mishandled’ all the issues during his tenure in the past one year.
“I’m amazed how he mis-handles things. He is so experienced and had such a good manoeuverability. But no president has shown himself to be as incompetent as he has,” said Dungarpur.Slamming Dalmiya for his “failure” to go to England and talk to the Indian cricketers at the height of the bitter standoff over the ICC sponsorship contract, Dungarpur said “the players have never been so discontented as now”. He alleged that the players had lost confidence in the Indian board, and were now on the verge of forming a cricketers’ association. (PTI)