Return of the king?

Lokendra Pratap Sahi, in the Telegraph, traces Jagmohan Dalmiya's demise in Indian cricket politics, and how he plans to make a come-back via the elections for the Cricket Association of Bengal, which will be held on Tuesday.

Thirteen months after Pawar’s win, Dalmiya was banned from the BCCI, an act of vindictiveness which got challenged in court. Days later, he stepped down as president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB). That was in end-December 2006.

Come Tuesday and Dalmiya, who has a favourable order from the Calcutta High Court, will be in an unsual role: Of a challenger, out to unseat Prasun Mukherjee, whom he’d defeated two years ago. Actually, Mukherjee’s in the chair without winning an election. To regain even a toehold in the BCCI and again become relevant, for starters within the East Zone, it’s an election Dalmiya must win.

The same newspaper details the goings-on in the camps of Mukherjee and Dalmiya a day before the elections.