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Jagmohan Dalmiya: The man who made cricket rich!

Kerry Packer is credited for players getting paid what their skills demanded when he took world cricket by storm in 1977, but it is Dalmiya who took the financial health of the game to a new level

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Jagmohan Dalmiya

Jagmohan Dalmiya

Kerry Packer is credited for players getting paid what their skills demanded when he took world cricket by storm in 1977. But it is Jagmohan Dalmiya who took the financial health of the game to a new level when he became International Cricket Council's (ICC) chief two decades later. BCCI president Dalmiya (75) passed away in a Kolkata hospital yesterday, following a cardiac arrest.

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Jagmohan Dalmiya. Pic/AFP
Jagmohan Dalmiya. Pic/AFP 

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