Cricket Administered

Hats off to Jagmohan Dalmiya for being one of the three selected from among 250 candidates, to receive the International Journal of History of Sport achievement award. This is not just a formal recognition of the cricket administrator's tremendous achievement for Indian cricket and world cricket at large, but also a potentially huge boost to the reputation of cricket, which is still played seriously in only a handful of countries, and is still not a part of the Olympics. In fact, Mr. Dalmiya has been instrumental in the globalisation of the game, the International Cricket Council (ICC) now having more than ninety members. His matter-of-fact, no-nonsense professionalism has found its reflection in an activity-oriented Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) and an increasing transparency of the ICC.