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Business Today, October, 2005 by Ashish Gupta; E. Kumar Sharma; Krishna Gopalan; Kumarkaushalam; Kushan Mitra; Mahesh Nayak; Nitya Varadarajan; Priya Srinivasan; Ritwik Mukherjee; Sahad P.V; Sahad P.V.; Shailesh Dobhal; Archna Shukla

Power Play

Money. Glory. And power. Just why everyone wants a piece of cricket in India.

Archna Shukla

Even people who know Jagmohan Dalmiya, the patron-in-chief of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), can be forgiven for forgetting that he inherited a reasonably large and profitable construction business at the age of 19. At 65, if there is one thing the wealthy Marwari from Kolkata is synonymous with, it is cricket. He has thrice been President of BCCI, which makes him, according to the organisation's rules, ineligible for any more terms, one reason why he got the organisation to create his current position-the creation of the post and his appointment to it are both being questioned in the courts- and he has served as President of the International...

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