“It is the most uncharitable and unreasonable comment you have made.”

Jagmohan Dalmiya was in no mood to hold back the hard talk in Chennai yesterday after he adorned the role of stand-in skipper of the Indian cricket board after president N Srinivasan stepped aside. The former BCCI and ICC chief uttered the above words to a probing journalist who suggested that yesterday’s Emergency Working Committee meeting was an eyewash.