Jagmohan Dalmiya
| Jagmohan Dalmiya | |
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| President, BCCI | |
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In office 2 March 2015 – 20 September 2015 (till death) |
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| Preceded by | Shivlal Yadav |
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In office 2013–2013 |
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| Preceded by | N. Srinivasan |
| Succeeded by | Shivlal Yadav |
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In office 2001–2004 |
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| Preceded by | A. C. Muthiah |
| Succeeded by | Ranbir Singh Mahendra |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
30 May 1940 Calcutta, British India |
| Died | 20 September 2015 (aged 75) Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Co-owner of M. L. Dalmiya & Co. |
Jagmohan Dalmiya (30 May 1940 – 20 September 2015) was an Indian cricket administrator and businessman from the city of Kolkata. He was the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Cricket Association of Bengal. He had previously served as the President of the International Cricket Council.
After suffering a massive cardiac arrest on 17 September 2015, Dalmiya was admitted to a hospital and died three days later.
Dalmiya was born into a Marwari family of the Baniya (tradesman) caste, originally hailing from Sikar in Rajasthan and based in Kolkata for many decades. His father, Arjun Prasad Dalmiya, was a businessman based in Kolkata. Dalmiya studied at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta. He started his career as a wicketkeeper and also opened the batting, playing for one of the leading cricket clubs in Calcutta. After his father's death, Dalmiya took charge of his father's firm ML Dalmiya and Co at the age of 19. The firm constructed Calcutta's Birla Planetarium in 1963.
Dalmiya was married to Chandralekha Dalmiya (nee Ghose), who was born into a land-owning Bengali family of Pathuriaghata belonging to the Kayastha caste. They were blessed with a son and a daughter. His son, Avishek, took over from his father both in business and at the BCCI. Dalmiya's daughter, Vaishali (born 1969), is a single mother to a teenager. In 2016, shortly after her father's death, she joined the Trinamool Congress, was immediately given the ticket to contest the assembly election from the Bally constituency, and was duly elected to the state assembly.
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