Who is handling BCCI if Dalmiya's health has deteriorated so much, asks SC panel

A Supreme Court panel - comprising of former Chief Justice RM Lodha and retired apex court judges Ashok Bhan and RV Raveendran - has said that Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chief Jagmohan Dalmiya was ‘incoherent and incomprehensible’ when they recently interviewed him.

The panel was appointed by the Supreme Court to decide on the quantum of punishment for former BCCI president N Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan and Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra after they were found guilty of betting in IPL 2013.

According to a Times of India report , the panel questioned who was handling BCCI affairs after finding Dalmiya’s speech unclear — leaving his son the task of interpreting his answers, citing ‘illness-related problems’.

“If this is the physical and mental condition of the BCCI president at present, did those who elected him three months not know about this? If the physical and mental condition of the president has deteriorated so much in recent times, then who is running the affairs of the richest cricket body?” the panel was quoted as saying in the report.

An Indian Express report published in March said: when Jagmohan Dalmiya attended the 8 February working committee meeting in Chennai, he looked old and not in the best of health.

However, it seemed his health had remarkably improved after he returned to the helm of BCCI. “There’s a spring in his step and he looks to be in the pink of health,” Goa Cricket Association president Dr Shekhar Salkar was quoted as saying.

Dalmiya is 75-years-old and is considered a stalwart when it comes to cricket administration. The Cricket Association of Bengal chief also served as ICC chairman between 1997 and 2000.