A FOREIGN viewer of Indian television, on the evening of July 29th 2006, might have been forgiven for thinking the country had just elected a new government: such was the barrage of news flashes and shouted punditry, across dozens of news channels and in multiple languages, to record an election that had just taken place in Kolkata. But in some ways it was bigger than that: Jagmohan Dalmiya, the fallen titan of Indian cricket, who had turned the country’s favourite game into a multi-billion-dollar business and in the process transformed it, was back.
Game theory | Jagmohan Dalmiya
The rajah of cricket
Hardly anyone has changed cricket, by some measures the world’s second-most popular sport, as much as Jagmohan Dalmiya did
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